Despite their best efforts and a number of science projects being devoted to the cause the scientists are yet to create the ultimate robot helper. The kind you see in science fiction movies going about doing a number of helpful little chores such as serving drinks, cleaning the house and going shopping for groceries. These humanoid robots are still a distant dream.

The robots that are truly useful today don’t even look like humans. They are more like individual gadgets which are designed for a specific task alone rather than the multitasking Irona in Richie Rich comic books. Of course it would be everyone’s dream to own a robot like Irona who could do a multitude of different tasks and even be able to fly you out of hot spots.

Still robots are coming along as best as they can and robotics has succeeded in making a good deal of difference in industrial operations. Take the Australian Sheep Rearing Industry for example. They have now got robots that handle automated sheep meat processing. It is more efficient and sanitary than the older methods that involved actual human labor.

Robotic scientists are also learning new ways to get their robots to handle material, and find their way about obstacles. Each new technology that is developed brings us closer to that ultimate multitasking personal robot assistant from the science fiction movies and book. Maybe this science project is what will make your career.

At the Wishdoing Restaurant in China ages of science experiments have finally paid off. The restaurant is the first in China to employ or shall we say deploy two Robot Chefs. These robots can cook eight well-liked Chinese dishes such as spicy diced chicken with peanuts and Mapo Tofu, bean curd with chili sauce and Kung Pao Chicken.

What’s more the robot chefs will not have you waiting for long as they can cook a dish in three minutes flat. Talk about fast food. The restaurant workers need to push buttons to feed the name of the dish, the ingredients needs and the quantity and step back. The robot chef will then take over and cook the dish in record time.

It takes less than three minutes to clean the previous dish mess and restart work on the next dish. Talk about good time management. The robot chefs were showcased at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 at the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion. They were a major success with the crowd.

The efficiency of the robot chefs at the restaurant have seen the parent company Shanghai Qi Ding Food Development decide to use the robot chefs at its 100 plus restaurants all over China. Officials feel that since they assure low emissions of carbon, food hygiene, and standard tastes at all branches, they will be the trend in the future fast food segment. Want a new science project idea? Build a robot that can cook a burger.

One of the most fascinating ongoing science project is the development of robots. The mere thought of having a mechanical being take over menial tasks has been a truly popular one down the ages. However is it only now that the thought is being translated into reality by scientists across the globe.

The initial robots have been nothing more that a tin man that could just barely walk leave aside do useful things, but today we have far more advanced robots. In all fields robots are proving their worth. There are medical robots that assist doctors with surgery such as the Da Vinci robotic arm.

There are robots that are programmed to play football such as the ones designed by the students who participate in the FIRST competition for robotics. There are even robots that help contain nuclear leaks such as the ones deployed at the Japanese nuclear plant disaster site.

The dawn of robots is indeed upon us. The robots that are built today are also being tested for artificial intelligence. The robots today are capable of learning from their own mistakes making them smarter than some humans I know. The truth is that robots have always fascinated us and now you can make a science fair project out of all the robots that you admire.

The ecology conservationists are always talking about how the chemicals we seem to use mindlessly each day are actually polluting the earth badly. There is a lot of debate on how the water polluted with dish washers and detergents enters the water cycle and causes harm to the environment in terms of both flora and fauna.

In this science project we are going to try and prove if detergents actually do affect the growth of plants. To do so we are going to use three identical plants and use one of them as control. That means the control plant will be kept under the same environmental conditions but will get regular water. The second plant will be given half cup detergent with half cup water. While the their plant will get half cup dish washer fluid and half cup water.

Use the above combination to water the three potted plants on a daily basis for a week and observe the effects on each individual plant. By using our hypothesis it would stand that the plant that got normal water grows at a steady pace. At the same time the plants that are getting the supposedly poisonous mix of detergent and dish water should not be doing quite so well. Is that really what happens in your science project? Check and see.

Vitamins are supposed to be good for you, but are they good for plants too? That’s the question we try to answer with this science project. Just how good are vitamins for plant growth? Do they make a marked difference or do they make no difference at all. What are fertilizers after all if not some distant cousin of vitamins? They make up for deficiencies in the soil to give the plant better growth don’t they? So why should the vitamins that help us not help plants grow better too.  Let’s experiment and find out.

Take three identical saplings and use one of them as control. The other two are going to get vitamins and fertilizer doses for the experiment. You will need to place the plants all in the same area so that they can get the same amount of exposure to sun and the other natural elements. They will be watered together at the same time and in the same quantity. The only difference will be the supplements that they get.

The plants will be observed for a three month period with recording of observations made each week. The growth spurts of each plant will be notes in inches and recorded in a journal which will prove useful to make comparisons as time progresses. The Science Project can be terminated any time after there is enough data to provide a well rounded project.

This is an interesting science project. The growth of a plant is better in the absence of bacteria. A fact that no one who has studied horticulture will deny. Another fact is that if you boil something you kill the bacteria on it and sterilize it. Agreed to that one too since most of us have seen sterilization in progress at some location or the other.

So if we boil beans to sterilize them will they grow better and into plants faster? Plus dry seeds take time to absorb water to germinate. Will the boiling process speed up germination too? Of course cooking the beans for too long would make it impossible to grow. So what’s the optimum time to soak and boil the beans? Or does boiling the beans even a wee bit kill them and no plant will ever grow from them? That’s what we hope to find out with this science project.

What we need is a bag full of lentil beans. About 50 of them. Now divide them into groups of 10 each and place them in different bowls. Each of the five bowls will get a different treatment. One set will be used as control and planted into a pot. The second one will be soaked for 24 hours and then planted in a pot.

The third set get to soak 24 hour and then boiled for a minute before being planted in the pot. The fourth set get the 24 hour soaking and a 5 minute boiling before they go into the pot. Last lot gets soaked 24 hours and boiled for 10 minutes before being planted in the pot. Now observe the 5 pots for a month and record observations every week. You may be surprised at the observations you get in this science project.

In the previous experiment we tried to find out just how adding salt to water before boiling it affected the time it took to boil water and its temperature. In this post we’ll discover how such a simple activity can be combined into a full scale science project. By merely increasing a few variables in the same experiment and performing it repeatedly with these variable you can have an attractive science project ready in no time at all.

The key to it all is taking a number of readings as you substitute the variable. Now you can just just salt or you can add different things such as sugar or vinegar to the boiling water. Or just take salt in different amounts such as one tablespoon or two or three for the different repetitions of the experiment. Make sure that you adjust the data recording and hypothesis according to your choice of variable.

Now do the actual experiment and keep good records. Remember you will be using the data you collect in tables to demonstrate the variable’s effect on the simple process of boiling water. You can draw conclusions based on the data that you collect and either support or modify your hypothesis so that it works for the science project. There’s a lot your can play around with, so have fun experimenting.

In many cook books we read the preliminary instruction which says add salt to water before boiling it. Finding out why is going to be the aim of this science experiment. Does adding the salt to the water make it boil faster? Or does adding salt to the water make it boil at a higher temperature which may be required for the recipe? That’s what you will hope to find out as you perform this science experiment.

What all will you need for this process? Table salt, naturally, and distilled water so that no other factor affects the boiling temperature. Plus you will need a thermometer to check accurately just what the temperature of the boiling water is. And of course a timer to check how soon the water boiled. You will also need a spoon to shovel the salt into the water. And of course a container in which the water will be boiled.

Now make sure that an adult is aware that you are performing the experiment as the heating the water is potentially dangerous. It would be best to enlist your parent’s help as you set about doing this experiment. First you need to boil a cup of water without salt and see how long it took to reach boiling point. Measure the temperature with care. In the second round you add a tablespoon of salt to the water and make the same recordings. Now you will be able to reach the right result for your science project.

The generation of electrical power is one of the basic needs for maintaining our lifestyle. For this purpose many science projects keep trying to find more efficient ways of power generation and utilization. Alternative sources of power generation are big business today as the traditionally used fossil fuels are just not going to last much longer.

To this effect any science fair project dealing with energy generation will be an eye catching one for the judges. Toss in an unlikely method of generating energy and you may even have a prize winning project. For our project of a fruit powered battery we are going to use a simple circuit with a multi meter that can measure low voltages.

Add alligator clips to the circuit to be attached to the fruit and collect a basket of different types of fruit. You can even add a small light to the circuit to see if it can be lit at the voltage produced.  Now we are ready to record which fruit is the best producer of electricity. Keep detailed records for the power production of each fruit that you use.

You can use the data collected in a tabular form on your display board. Also have the fresh fruit handy for the judges to use on the circuit. Remember each fruit will be used just once. Have fun playing with your science fair project.

Your science project does not have to be complicated to be good. Even a simple machine will do the job. If you build a lever, pulley, inclined plane, wheel and axle, and wedge and make a working machine out of the combination it will be a fantastic science fair project. It will be simple to make as each of these does not take much effort.

It will also have the advantage of using multiple parts of simple machines to make a complex machine. Imagine the old Tom and Jerry cartoons where the mouse trap is so complicated looking. It is essentially a series of simple machines being used together for one single objective, that of a mouse trap. Of course its a different matter that the traps always end up back firing when clever little Jerry is involved.

Now think of a simple task that you would like performed. Decide how many steps it will take to perform the task. Now split up each step into a simple machine that you would like to do the action. Put it all together and attach the simple machines to each other so that there is a domino type of effect and viola you have a killer science fair project all set to go.