Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

13 Feb 24

Everything You Wanted to Know About 1X’s Latest Video

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Just last month, Oslo, Norway-based 1X (formerly Halodi Robotics) announced a massive $100 million Series B, and clearly they’ve been putting the work in. A new video posted last week shows a [insert collective noun for humanoid robots here] of EVE android-ish mobile manipulators doing a wide variety of tasks…

13 Feb 24

Yamaha Joins Global Move to Battery Swaps for E-bikes

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

E-bikes are today a growing component of the global transition away from fossil fuels—possibly more than the car-and-truck-focused sustainability crowd appreciates. E-bikes’ rapid growth in recent years stems in part from their simple solution to the range issue that big, hulking cars typically don’t offer. E-bikes are powered by relatively…

11 Feb 24

Smartphone Screens Are About to Become Speakers

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Today’s mobile-device speakers and haptic generators have several problems. The first is with the components themselves. The speakers in your smartphone and the system that gives your finger feedback when you touch a virtual button may be relatively small, but they are still big enough to limit how thin our…

11 Feb 24

Disney’s Newest Robot Demonstrates Collaborative Cuteness

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. If Disney’s history of storytelling has taught us anything, it’s to never underestimate the power of a great sidekick. Even though sidekicks aren’t the…

10 Feb 24

IEEE Foundation Day Marks a Half Century of Philanthropy

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In honor of the IEEE Foundation’s 50th anniversary, 16 February has been established as IEEE Foundation Day—a Celebration of the Heart. The theme reflects the Foundation’s vision of being the heart of IEEE’s charitable giving and philanthropy.On 16 February 1973, IEEE launched its philanthropic partner. The Foundation, initially established to…

09 Feb 24

Video Friday: Monocycle Robot with Legs

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.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICHHRI 2024: 11–15 March 2024, BOULDER,…

09 Feb 24

Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Climate Footprint

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Samuel K. Moore Hi. I’m Samuel K. Moore for IEEE Spectrum‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our…

09 Feb 24

Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. For the other side of the argument about open-source AI, see the recent guest post “Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous.“A culture war in AI is emerging between those who believe that the development of models should be restricted or unrestricted by default. In 2024, that…

08 Feb 24

Tiny Quadrotor Learns to Fly in 18 Seconds

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

It’s kind of astonishing how quadrotors have scaled over the last decade. Like, we’re now at the point where they’re verging on disposable, at least from a commercial or research perspective—for a bit over US $200, you can buy a little 27-gram, completely open source drone, and all you have…

08 Feb 24

Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away 1 January 2024. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software,” published in Computer, the magazine for members of the IEEE Computer Society, which I read early in my…

Everything You Wanted to Know About 1X’s Latest Video

Yamaha Joins Global Move to Battery Swaps for E-bikes

Smartphone Screens Are About to Become Speakers

Disney’s Newest Robot Demonstrates Collaborative Cuteness

IEEE Foundation Day Marks a Half Century of Philanthropy

Video Friday: Monocycle Robot with Legs

Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Climate Footprint

Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

Tiny Quadrotor Learns to Fly in 18 Seconds

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