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07 Jul 23

Video Friday: RoboCup 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCERSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023,…

07 Jul 23

Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Employing computer vision techniques, students from the Ramaiah Institute of Technology’s IEEE Computational Intelligence Society chapter in Bangalore, India, developed a device to assist people who are visually impaired. OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The goal is…

07 Jul 23

Could Weaker Lines Prevent Catastrophe in Ukraine?

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A thick fog of war has enveloped Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant since Russian forces seized it 16 months ago. And the crisis has only hit new levels in recent weeks. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant lies on the front line amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive whose full firepower remains to be…

07 Jul 23

Reinforcing our commitment to online safety in Singapore

Computer & Information Technology

At our first Safer with Google event, we outlined several initiatives reaffirming our commitment to keep Singaporeans and businesses safer online.

07 Jul 23

Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

If you’re a typical person who has plenty of medical questions and not enough time with a doctor to ask them, you may have already turned to ChatGPT for help. Have you asked ChatGPT to interpret the results of that lab test your doctor ordered? The one that came back…

07 Jul 23

Prototype Sensors Sniff Out Seizures Before They Occur

Computer & Information Technology

Wearable sensors may one day detect impending seizures and give a warning roughly 20 minutes before an attack happens. Researchers at Know Biological in Milton, Georgia, and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a sensor that can reproduce the seizure-sniffing abilities of trained dogs that they hope will one day be…

07 Jul 23

‘Floundering’ HS2 Euston project could rise in costs without a clear plan, MPs warn

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In its latest report, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has blamed the delays incurred in the building of the London Euston HS2 station on government indecision. "Despite spending over eight years on planning and designing the HS2 Euston station, the department still does not know what it is trying to…

06 Jul 23

The science behind Fitbit’s Sleep Profile animals

Computer & Information Technology

Learn how the Fitbit team created a beloved feature of its Premium Sleep Profile.

06 Jul 23

Robots could get muscles using a new ferroelectric material

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The team has demonstrated the potential of a new type of ferroelectric polymer that can convert electrical energy into a mechanical strain with greater efficiency than previous methods. This material could be extremely useful in the development of medical devices, advanced robotics and precision positioning systems. This new polymer could overcome…

06 Jul 23

AI predicts crystal orientation to improve manufacturing of electronic devices

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Crystals are a vital component of many machines. Familiar materials used in industry contain polycrystalline components, including metal alloys, ceramics and semiconductors. As polycrystals are made up of many crystals, they have a complex microstructure and their properties vary greatly depending on how the crystal grains are orientated. This is…