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Walter Wafula and Nicholas Kalungi

Students of Gayaza High School and St. Mary’s College Kisubi have produced models of two heavy instrumentation of importance to the construction and developing industries.

The robots include a heavy load carrier baptised “NXT Robot” formulated by Gayaza students and a remote-controlled crane by Kisubi students.

The robots were exhibited at Makerere University last week. The high school students were capable to assemble the robots with the help of technology students of the university.

The creation of the models means that if necessary resources are made available, Uganda has the humane resource to assemble and programme such upgraded machines.

Call for resources

The members of the two teams emphasised that if given the real raw material applied and time, they may assemble and programme real equipment.

“This is just a little sample of what we may do. If given more time and all required resources, we may come up with a mega robot. That may perhaps be the biggest innovation from Uganda”, Ms Ann Nansanga, a fellow member of the Gayaza team, said.

They faced lack of resources, little time, inaccuracy of sensors, and programming foilings as a great deal of of the challenges for the duration of the four-month development.

The robots are a lot of of the various visible fruits of iLabs@Makerere project introduced at the university in 2003. The Internet-based project is under the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology.

The project is presently furnished by the honored Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and the Presidential Innovations Fund for the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology at Makerere.

Under the fund, the college is allocated Shs5 billion per annum to facilitate initial class research, undergrad science study plus advancing inventions and inventions amidst Ugandans.

The presidential fund was started in 2010 and will run until 2014. Under the same initiative, Makerere engineering science students are also assembling the Kiira Electric Vehicle which is scheduled for completion this year.

The car is designed to provide an substitute to the current costly diesel and petrol cars on Ugandan roads. The basi car is expected to be in place by 2015.

Prof. Sandy Tickodri-Togboa, the deputy vice chancellor, Finance and Administration, at Makerere, applauded the two teams for their display of physics discipline.

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