Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Donut Lab’s New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub

January 14, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In-hub wheel motors are among the most tantalizing and yet elusive of electric-vehicle technologies. And now, after decades of failures and near-misses, a donut-shaped electric hub motor was among the sweetest offerings at the recent CES show in Las Vegas.The motors come from Donut Lab, a spin-off of Finland’s Verge…

13 Jan 25

Dual Seal Method for the Hermetic Sealing of Microbatteries

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The hermetic sealing of microbatteries is critical to ensuring the long-term performance, safety, and reliability within the many electronics they are used. This white paper explores the essential properties and performance criteria of those adhesives designed for hermetically sealing batteries. The adhesive must fulfill several critical criteria, such as chemical…

January 10, 2025
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 German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15…

January 10, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed in 2010, when home robots…

January 10, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Funding for two new microreactors could bring reliable nuclear power to remote locations. Westinghouse secured US $3 million for its eVinci microreactor, and Radiant Industries received $2 million for its Kaleidos microreactor, both in November from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).The funding will help the companies ready the technology…

January 8, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

For decades, researchers have tried to squeeze quantum signals alongside classical signals in fiber optic cables. Quantum bits, however, are based on delicate quantum states of individual particles, which can be disrupted by thermal noise and other factors. Last month, Northwestern University engineers sent a pair of entangled photons more…

07 Jan 25

Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The Secure Systems Research Center (SSRC) at TII has developed a rigorous, holistic testing framework to…

January 7, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

At CES 2025, Lenovo won the race to deliver something various companies have teased for years but never took beyond a prototype: A rollable OLED laptop with an expanding display.The Lenovo Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, the first rollable OLED laptop, debuts at CES 2025. looks and feels like a…

January 6, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Over the last year, Spectrum’s editors have noticed an emerging through line connecting several major stories: the centrality of technology to geopolitics. Last month, our cover story, done in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine, was on the future of submarine warfare. And last October, we focused on how sea drones…

January 6, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Automakers got one thing right: Electrified cars are the future. What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. Now the automaking giants are scrambling to course correct. They’re delaying their EV…

Donut Lab’s New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub

Dual Seal Method for the Hermetic Sealing of Microbatteries

Video Friday: Arms on Vacuums

This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping

Two Nuclear Microreactors Reach Milestone

Can Qubits Teleport Through Today’s Internet Lines?

Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks

Lenovo Makes Rollable OLED Screens a Laptop Reality

Ambitious Projects Could Reshape Geopolitics

As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

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