Tag: Inventor
An Inventor who failed his exam: Meet Wang Xingxing, the young CEO behind Unitree humanoid bots?
Last year, when President Xi Jinping convened a summit of China’s most formidable industrial titans in the Great Hall of the People, the seating...
Abraham Gesner, the Canadian doctor who invented kerosene and lit up the world
In the early 1840s, whale oil was used to light lamps, but it was expensive, smoky, and pushing whales towards extinction, until Abraham Gesner...
Computing science professor, Richard Sutton wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’
Richard Sutton is co-recipient of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for his work as one of the founders of reinforcement learning, Adrianna MacPherson reports.A...
12-year-old Nigerian pupil gets $11.5m to install her virus-removal air filter in US schools
According to reports out of Connecticut, a 12-year-old Nigerian pupil, Eniola Shokunbi Eniola and her team has received a grant of $11.5 million to...
Inspiring Story of 15 year Old Heman Bekele, “TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year, treating cancer
By MyEngineersHeman Bekele, a 15-year-old from Fairfax County, Virginia, was named TIME's Kid of the Year for 2024 for his innovative skin-cancer-fighting soap.This recognition...
The Tragedy of an Inventor once heralded and celebrated for his breakthroughs that are now viewed as disaster
Until the 1970s that the damage from his two inventions became widely known, Inventor, Chemical Engineer Thomas Midgley Jr. was celebrated for his role...