A 17-year-old Nigerian boy who built a remote-controlled robot won a scholarship to a university and plans to major in computer engineering.
Isah Auwal Barde, the clever boy got the scholarship to study computer engineering after constructing a robot using cartons.
The young boy who is a native of Kano in northern Nigeria, recently completed his secondary school education with great expectations or furthering his education.
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The Robot has a Remote Control
The talented boy received an undergraduate scholarship to Baze University.
Isah Auwal created a robot that uses a robotic exoskeleton remote control, a technology that lets the user interact with the robot to operate it.
Speaking to BBC about his achievements, he said that it took him two years to create the robot using items found locally, including metal, copper wires, pipes, corrugated cardboard, and DC motors.
He said:
“I use cartons, pen covers, bottles and those materials that are not hard to get and also the ones that I buy in the market like DC motors”.
“After designing the robot, I started working on how to make the robot move instead of it being static, so I began working on the exoskeleton which now makes it move”.
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Brilliant 18-year-old lady bags PhD
In another news, an 18-year-old genius achieved an outstanding feat, bagging a PhD at such a young age.
The lady, identified as Thessalonika Arzu-Embry (Tessa Embry), completed a PhD in Aviation Psychology from Capella University, Minneapolis, USA.
She has written her name in gold, becoming one of America’s youngest Doctorate degree holders.
