Baleka, Africa's first two-legged robot, is the brainchild of Dr Amir Patel and his team at the University of Cape Town and sets the stage for the future of robotics research. The ... Read more »
allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo interviewed some of the top 30 health-oriented innovators selected from a field of more than 2 400 entries to the first-ever WHO Innovation Challenge ... Read more »
Professor Roger Deane of the University of Pretoria was part of an international group of scientists who made history by capturing the first ever image of a black hole. Deane and ... Read more »
Power outages are frequent and random in Nigeria. To solve this problem, a university in Nigeria has built an organic waste power-generating plant to provide electricity to the ... Read more »
The Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Gauteng has successfully performed the world's first 3D-printed total middle-ear transplant on a patient born with an underdeveloped middle ear. Read more »
After three-and-a-half years of negotiations, seven countries - South Africa, Australia, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom - have signed a treaty in ... Read more »
rAInbow, developed with funding partner Sage Foundation and social justice organisation, The Soul City Institute, is a smart companion that allows users to 'chat' to a non-human ... Read more »
Parks around the continent have embarked on an unusual high-tech experiment to curb poaching. Flying silently and invisibly, drones could be a game-changer as they track both ... Read more »
According to a report released by news and research portal Disrupt Africa, African tech startups smashed funding records in 2018 with 210 startups securing U.S.$334.5 million worth ... Read more »
"Saturday morning whatsapp will become chargeable. If you have at least 10 contacts send them this message." Sound familiar? This and more chain messages may become less frequent ... Read more »
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