Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Fully functional robot made from trash. While many would believe that the most trash can do is grace your living room if a creative eco-minded artist worked on it, Vu Van Thang, a 19-year-old inventor from Thai Binh province has won...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered miniature robots for military surveillance. The latest advancements in chip design and fabrication techniques has made researchers develop products that are smaller, more efficient and more intelligent than their...

Eco Factor: Pollutant sniffing robotic fish developed to monitor water pollution. Marine life is tottering under the heavy burden of toxic waste, which as a result of rapid industrialization is being released into seas and rivers all over the...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered snow shovel. Last year we featured a human-powered DIY snow shovel, which required muscles of steel and guts to get out in the cold and power a machine to get rid of all the snow in your backyard. This year we have...

Eco Factor: Wind turbine inspecting robot. Recently news surfaced that a wind turbine in England was hammered by an alien spacecraft. We don’t want to unravel any answers to the ET mystery here, but we just want to acknowledge the fact that wind.

Eco Factor: Water leakage detecting robot powers itself with hydroelectricity. Statistics show that about three billion liters of chemically treated drinking water is lost each day in London due to faults in water piping systems. The conventional..

Eco Factor: Farmer builds 26 robots from junk to perform daily tasks. A Chinese farmer, Wu Yulu, has proved that mechanical skills don’t come with after years of specialized education, but all that is needed is passion and patience. The farmer...

Eco Factor: Multipurpose robot is powered by solar energy. According to a research conducted by International Federation of Robotics, there were 3.4 million personal service robots in use by the end of 2007. Since most of these robots are...

This may not be the cutest pet that you ever had, but it sure as hell is better than any of the other ones when it comes to taking care of the planet. Many people barely ever pay attention to the warnings issued by the environmental experts, but when...

There is something deadly about oils spills that go way beyond just loss of fuel. It is not just a waste of natural resource but more importantly is hazard to the environment that is much like a cancer. The oil spill spreads on the surface of the...