Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

13 Dec 23

Stop Trusting Your Cloud Provider

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to some tough problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at Spectrum. And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage…

13 Dec 23

This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Every workday, Sarah Ansari strives to ensure that the nuclear power plant where she works is operating safely. The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One, in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond…

12 Dec 23

IoT Related EM Simulation Scenarios

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Electromagnetic aspects of selected Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios are presented: devices inside an aircraft apartment, devices used for locating humans inside a corridor, several RFID devices and several reader/tag scenarios. The suitability of WIPL-D software to analyze IoT systems is demonstrated including flexible EM modeling and numerically efficient simulations.…

12 Dec 23

New Device Leads to “Dendrocentric Learning”

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Neuromorphic computing has so far tried to mimic the synapses between neurons in the brain. But a new approach instead aims to act like dendrites, the spindly structures that branch out from the nucleus of a neuron like the roots of a tree. Dendrites receive signals from other neurons via…

11 Dec 23

Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As an electrical engineer, James Reynolds didn’t expect to work so closely with plants. But in a way, his ancestral history and his personal history have long been leading him to his ongoing research…

11 Dec 23

Why Li-Fi Might be Better than Wi-Fi

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The recent adoption of IEEE 802.11bb has launched light fidelity, or Li-Fi, which opened the door into an era of wireless communication for advanced Wi-Fi technologies. Li-Fi enables Wi-Fi to use light waves instead of radio waves to transmit and receive data.IEEE 802.11bb defines the rules for how Li-Fi devices…

09 Dec 23

VR Goggles for Mice. Wait, What?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A mouse wearing virtual-reality goggles? Now I’ve seen everything.The point is to show everything to a mouse. Brain researchers would love to do that by setting a mouse free in a little playground while probing its brain. But the probes involve lasers, microscopes, and other apparatus far too heavy for…

09 Dec 23

Video Friday: Floppybot

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo 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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023,…

08 Dec 23

Self-Driven “Vine” Seeks Light and Heat

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Thanks to eons of evolution, vines have the ability to seek out light sources, growing in the direction that will optimize their chances of absorbing sunlight and thriving. Now, researchers have succeeded in creating a…

07 Dec 23

Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Every minute counts when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. New research suggests that drones equipped with equipment to automatically restart someone’s heart could help get life-saving care to people much faster. If your heart stops beating outside of a hospital, your chance of survival is typically less than 10 percent.…