Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

02 Jul 23

Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin believed the computer he…

30 Jun 23

Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. As he got older, he and his brother began…

30 Jun 23

Kicking It With Robots

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In July of 2010, I traveled to Singapore to take care of my then 6-year-old son Henry while his mother attended an academic conference. But I was really there for the robots.IEEE Spectrum’s digital product manager, Erico Guizzo, was our robotics editor at the time. We had just combined forces…

30 Jun 23

Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS

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,…

30 Jun 23

Mojo Vision Rocks the AR World with Red MicroLEDS

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The latest microLED breakthrough will have you seeing red—even in the world’s smallest augmented-reality applications. Mojo Vision made headlines in 2022 when its former CEO, Drew Perkins, slipped the company’s AR contact lens into his eye. The lens packed a tiny green microLED display with an astounding 14,000 pixels per…

29 Jun 23

Welcome to Fusion City, USA

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. A sleepy strip mall beside Boeing’s sprawling campus in Everett, WA isn’t necessarily where you’d expect to find technology promising to harness the power of the sun, release humanity from the grip of fossil fuels, and…

29 Jun 23

Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

From 2019 to 2022, I had the privilege of serving as president of the RoboCup Federation. RoboCup is an annual international competitive event that merges visionary thinking about how AI and robotics will change the world with practical robot design. Participants spend months solving diverse technical problems to enable their…

29 Jun 23

This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Mechanical Turk was a fraud. The chess-playing automaton, dressed in a turban and elaborate Ottoman robes, toured Europe in the closing decades of the 18th century accompanied by its inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. The Turk wowed Austrian empress Maria Theresa, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and Prussian king Frederick the…

29 Jun 23

Hardware Pioneers Max 2023: Where Electronics, IoT Connectivity and Embedded Systems Converge

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

There will be an audience of over 2000 people at the event - comprised of engineers, business leaders, technology journalists, industry analysts and investors. 75 influential companies and organisations will be exhibiting, and there will be a series of informative presentations, valuable networking sessions and lively panel discussions too. Among…

29 Jun 23

EV Interference Doesn’t Have to Kill AM Radio

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

AM radio could very easily fit into the hallowed category of “perfected technology.” It’s been around for over a century, the physics and engineering are very well understood, and there have been no major technological advancements in its design for at least a couple decades.Which is perhaps why it’s so…

Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Kicking It With Robots

Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS

Mojo Vision Rocks the AR World with Red MicroLEDS

Welcome to Fusion City, USA

Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

Hardware Pioneers Max 2023: Where Electronics, IoT Connectivity and Embedded Systems Converge

EV Interference Doesn’t Have to Kill AM Radio

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law