Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

17 Feb 24

The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

How much thought do you give to where you keep your bits? Every day we produce more data, including emails, texts, photos, and social media posts. Though much of this content is forgettable, every day we implicitly decide not to get rid of that data. We keep it somewhere, be…

16 Feb 24

Video Friday: Acrobot Error

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,…

16 Feb 24

Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Many college students participate in sports, listen to music, or play video games in their spare time, but IEEE Student Member Gerard Piccini prefers amateur radio, also known as ham radio. He’s been involved with the two-way radio communication, which uses designated frequencies, since his uncle introduced him to it…

16 Feb 24

New Solid Electrolyte Matches Liquid Performance

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In a significant breakthrough that could reshape the landscape of battery technology, researchers at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a novel solid electrolyte material capable of conducting lithium ions at a speed equal to that of liquid electrolytes.Solid electrolytes offer a key benefit over the liquid variety—they don’t blow…

15 Feb 24

Stretch 3 Brings Us Closer to Realistic Home Robots

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A lot has happened in robotics over the last year. Everyone is wondering how AI will transform robotics, and everyone else is wondering whether humanoids are going to blow it or not, and the rest of us are busy trying not to get completely run over as things shake out…

15 Feb 24

Sensor Scavenges Energy From Wire’s Magnetic Field

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Car makers can lose as much as US $22,000 per minute when manufacturing lines go down. Internet of things (IoT) devices could help with that by detecting equipment problems before they happen, drastically lowering maintenance…

14 Feb 24

Studying Yesterday’s Blackouts to Head Off Tomorrow’s

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The power grid today is in flux as its analog devices go digital. Electrical plants with rotating generators are giving way to solar and wind farms fronted by power inverters, which convert the renewables’…

14 Feb 24

What Is Generative AI?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Generative AI is today’s buzziest form of artificial intelligence, and it’s what powers chatbots like ChatGPT, Ernie, LLaMA, Claude, and Cohere—as well as image generators like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney. Generative AI is the branch of AI that enables machines to learn patterns from vast datasets…

13 Feb 24

The FCC’s Ban on AI in Robocalls Won’t Be Enough

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the days before the U.S. Democratic Party’s New Hampshire primary election on 23 January, potential voters began receiving a call with AI-generated audio of a fake President Biden urging them not to vote until the general election in November. Voters in Slovakia audio posted to Facebook contained fake, AI-generated…

13 Feb 24

What It’s Like to Eat a Robot

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Odorigui is a type of Japanese cuisine in which people consume live seafood while it’s still moving, making movement part of the experience. You may have some feelings about this (I definitely do), but from a research perspective, getting into what those feelings are and what they mean isn’t really…

The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

Video Friday: Acrobot Error

Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

New Solid Electrolyte Matches Liquid Performance

Stretch 3 Brings Us Closer to Realistic Home Robots

Sensor Scavenges Energy From Wire’s Magnetic Field

Studying Yesterday’s Blackouts to Head Off Tomorrow’s

What Is Generative AI?

The FCC’s Ban on AI in Robocalls Won’t Be Enough

What It’s Like to Eat a Robot

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