{"id":526983,"date":"2010-04-14T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/togolese-student-builds-working-robot-from-old-tvs\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T07:05:12","slug":"togolese-student-builds-working-robot-from-old-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526983","title":{"rendered":"Togolese student builds working robot from old TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/04\/14\/sam10_7K6qU_69.jpg\" alt=\"sam10\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Robot created from recycled materials. <\/p>\n<p>Sam Todo, a young student from Togo, Africa has created a fully-working robot made entirely from old TV parts and other used electronics. Dubbed SAM10, the fully-automatic robot will be able to greet people and also avoid objects in front of it. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"460\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sPIq4LbUODk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sPIq4LbUODk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"460\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Obsessed with building robots, Sam\u2019s robot will also be able to calculate the distance of an object in front of it. The inventor states that in Africa many young people are not interested in sciences and his work can change things by making people around him realize the importance of technology.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrigadget.com\/2010\/04\/11\/a-homemade-robot-in-togo\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Afrigadget+%28AfriGadget%29\">AfriGadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Robot created from recycled materials. Sam Todo, a young student from Togo, Africa has created a fully-working robot made entirely from old TV parts and other used electronics. Dubbed SAM10, the fully-automatic robot will be able to greet people and also avoid objects in front of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}