Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

17 Dec 23

Q-Dot Display Ups the Screen Arms Race—on the Dashboard

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Colorful, plus-sized display screens are proliferating in modern cars, turning them into rolling man caves: Driver instrument panels swiftly reconfigure to show maps or other data. Ferrari and Stellantis offer front shotgun passengers an interactive screen to futz with. BMW and other brands dangle lavish multimedia streaming systems for the…

17 Dec 23

35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the vision became a reality.IEEE Life Senior Member Stevo Bozinovski and Members Mihail Sestakov and Dr. Liljana Bozinovska used a student volunteer’s electroencephalogram (EEG) brain signals to move a robot along a…

16 Dec 23

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A vision for future processors with nearly double the density of transistors is beginning to take shape, now that all three advanced chipmakers have demonstrated CFETS, or complementary field-effect transistors. CFETs are a single structure that stacks both the types of transistors needed for CMOS logic. At the IEEE International…

15 Dec 23

Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Every day, as the Internet becomes more indispensable to modern life, the drawbacks of deep engagement with the virtual realm capture as much attention as the wide-ranging benefits. On the Internet, of course, anyone can in all too many forums pretty much say anything—regardless of whether the facts are on…

15 Dec 23

Video Friday: The Simplest Walking Robot

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, ZURICHEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May…

15 Dec 23

This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The useful niche that quadrupedal robots seem to have found for themselves, at least for the moment, is infrastructure inspection. They’ve had a mild to moderate amount of success monitoring industrial sites, tracking construction…

14 Dec 23

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

One day, the theory goes, we humans will create AI systems that outmatch us intellectually. That could be great if they solve problems that we’ve been thus far unable to crack (think cancer or climate change), or really bad if they begin to act in ways that are not in…

14 Dec 23

Civilian Satellites Descend Into Very Low Earth Orbit

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The first commercial very low-Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite will probably launch before the end of December, depending on how things go at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) and EOI Space. Both companies claim they are leading the way on an over-the-horizon idea that will bring satellites more down-to-Earth…

14 Dec 23

AI-Powered Microdisplay Adapts to Users’ Eyesight

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Modern augmented reality (AR) and virutal reality (VR) headsets achieve pixel counts in the tens of millions. Yet that doesn’t guarantee a crisp image. Headsets often leave users squinting to focus on a blurry mess or, in some cases, a creeping sense of nausea. Microdisplay manufacturer KOPIN, of Westborough, Mass.,…

13 Dec 23

3 Paths to Sharper Images

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The quality of a camera is typically limited by its size and ability to let in a lot of light. In smaller cameras, lenses can help improve the image quality to an extent, but new approaches are instead looking to improve cameras by modifying the sensors that convert rays of…

Q-Dot Display Ups the Screen Arms Race—on the Dashboard

35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing

Video Friday: The Simplest Walking Robot

This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Civilian Satellites Descend Into Very Low Earth Orbit

AI-Powered Microdisplay Adapts to Users’ Eyesight

3 Paths to Sharper Images

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