Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

02 Oct 23

NASA Tests Space Lasers for Next-Gen Communications

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

It is thanks to S-band radio that the world got to join in—live—as the astronauts of Apollo 11 walked on the moon. The video images were ghostly, and the audio was filled with static. But they were real, watched by half a billion people on Earth as Neil Armstrong said,…

02 Oct 23

Nasa validates a new AI-enabled form of energy

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

During the Energy & Mobility Conference & Expo in Cleveland, Ohio, the two organisations presented alternating direct current (ADC), a hybrid of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla technologies. The research has been led by Nasa Langley Research Center scientist Narasimha Prasad PhD, with the goal of developing an AI-enabled technology…

02 Oct 23

Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Episode 2: How Labrador and iRobot Create Domestic Robots That Really Help Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a new podcast from IEEE Spectrum where robotics experts interview each other about things that they find fascinating. On this episode of ChatBot, we’ll be talking with Mike Dooley…

02 Oct 23

ChatGPT’s New Upgrade Teases AI’s Multimodal Future

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

ChatGPT isn’t just a chatbot anymore.OpenAI’s latest upgrade grants ChatGPT powerful new abilities that go beyond text. It can tell bedtime stories in its own AI voice, identify objects in photos, and respond to audio recordings. These capabilities represent the next big thing in AI: multimodal models.“Multimodal is the next…

02 Oct 23

Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. On this episode of ChatBot, we’ll be talking with Monica Thomas and Amy LaViers about robots and dance. Monica Thomas is a dancer and choreographer. Monica has…

01 Oct 23

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. Included in its many exhibits on modern science and the progressive future was this electric desktop orrery. Much like the traditional clockwork orreries of centuries past, this unit showed the motions of the planets and other celestial objects,…

30 Sep 23

IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. That all changed this year, after a team of IEEE volunteers traveled to the village and installed…

30 Sep 23

Video Friday: Good Behaviors

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.IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS,…

29 Sep 23

Solar-Powered Microfliers for Swarm-Based Surveying

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Microfliers, or miniature wireless robots deployed in numbers, are sometimes used today for large-scale surveillance and monitoring purposes, such as in environmental or biological studies. Because of the fliers’ ability to disperse in air, they can spread out to cover large areas after being dropped from a single location, including…

29 Sep 23

A Cheaper Ultrafast Camera Required Looking to Optics

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

High-speed digital imaging is more than about taking photographs very fast. It can capture events that happen in a fraction of a second, and too fast for the human eye to glimpse. Ultrafast photography has applications in motion tracking and analysis, security, and robotic vision, as well as in laboratories…

NASA Tests Space Lasers for Next-Gen Communications

Nasa validates a new AI-enabled form of energy

Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

ChatGPT’s New Upgrade Teases AI’s Multimodal Future

Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

Video Friday: Good Behaviors

Solar-Powered Microfliers for Swarm-Based Surveying

A Cheaper Ultrafast Camera Required Looking to Optics

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