General News of Thursday, 11 April 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comKNUST students build robot that repels mosquitoesSecond-year students, Joana Owusu-Appiah, Selinam Fiadjo and Daniella AsareEach year, countries around the world – Africa, specifically, spend huge sums of money on mosquito control programmes and mosquito bite treatment. Well, Biomedical Engineering students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology have a built a robotic mosquito repellent. Second-year students, Joana Owusu-Appiah, Selinam Fiadjo and Daniella Asare call the robot ‘Anquito’, coined from ‘anti’ and ‘mosquito’. This limit varies from person to person and is approximately 20 kilohertz in healthy young adults. The students are working to create miniature of the machine and employ artificial intelligence to make it smarter.

Source: GhanaWeb April 11, 2019 13:41 UTC