Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Hardware Startups Navigate Global Trends with Hax’s Help

October 23, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Duncan Turner is the managing director at Hax, a startup accelerator that specializes in “hard tech”—innovations in physical science and engineering. Hax offers up to US $500,000 in funding alongside resources that include chemical, mechanical, and electronics labs, and access to a global team of engineers and scientists. Turner’s group…

October 23, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Satellite Internet is becoming an increasingly popular way to get online. But new rules from the Chinese government suggest it wants to make sure its version of space-based broadband comes pre-loaded with the nation’s elaborate system of online censorship. The authoritarian state has long restricted domestic access to online content…

October 22, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Simone Giertz came to fame in the 2010s by becoming the self-proclaimed “queen of shitty robots.” On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. But Giertz…

October 22, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash another of the region’s…

October 21, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The two reactors once used to train the Soviet Union’s elite nuclear submariners on the Estonian coast are going to stick around a lot longer than the October revolution.And to make sure they’re safe, Estonia’s government—which after years of independence, likes to think of itself as forward-looking—turned to the latest…

21 Oct 24

This Startup Shows Why the U.S. CHIPS Act Is Needed

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

There’s a certain sameness to spaces meant for tech startups: flexible cubicle arrangements, glass-encased executive offices, whiteboard walls awaiting equations and ideas, basement laboratories for the noisier and more dangerous parts of the process. In some ways the home of Ideal Semiconductor on the campus of Lehigh University, in Bethlehem,…

October 19, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In the last decade, Meta has embarked on a quest to blend the physical and virtual realms. The tech giant is bringing that fusion to fruition with the recent unveiling of what it calls its first pair of “true” augmented reality (AR) glasses, named Orion.While the company notes that Orion…

October 18, 2024
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.ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024,…

October 17, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Imagine you’re a baby cocoa plant, just unfurling your first tentative roots into the fertile, welcoming soil.Somewhere nearby, a predator stirs. It has no ears to hear you, no eyes to see you. But it knows where you are, thanks in part to the weak electric field emitted by your…

October 17, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose robot may make this partnership sound like a every other commercial humanoid…

Hardware Startups Navigate Global Trends with Hax’s Help

China Extends the “Great Firewall” Into Space

Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious

Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater

A Cosmic View of Soviet Estonia’s Nuclear Legacy

This Startup Shows Why the U.S. CHIPS Act Is Needed

Meta’s New AR Glasses Come at a High Cost

Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades

Crop Parasites Can Be Deterred By “Electric Fences”

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots

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