Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

01 Feb 24

Infrared Sensors Can Now Peer Around Corners

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Just because an object is around a corner doesn’t mean it has to be hidden. Non-line-of-sight imaging can peek around corners and spot those objects, but it has so far been limited to a narrow band of frequencies. Now a new sensor can help extend this technique from working with…

01 Feb 24

What Is an Electronic Sackbut?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research Council, began working…

31 Jan 24

Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors.The device is a type of phase change memory,…

30 Jan 24

The New, New Transistor

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Over the past decade, one of the biggest stories in semiconductors has been a surprise eclipsing of traditional silicon—in the field of power electronics, where silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) have raced past silicon to capture multibilllion-dollar segments of the market. And as major applications fell to these…

30 Jan 24

Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The rising popularity of artificial intelligence has impacted the entire world, including the tiny island of Anguilla. Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource.In the late 1980s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned countries and regions of geographic…

January 30, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Note: This post was originally published on the author’s Github repository for this project. As described in the accompanying Hands On article, this project is a digital clock that uses a high stability 10 Megahertz oscillator as its timing reference. The oscillator is an oven controller crystal oscillator, or OCXO,…

30 Jan 24

Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot Falls Through

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Citing “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” Amazon and iRobot have announced the termination of an acquisition deal first announced in August of 2022 that would have made iRobot a part of Amazon and valued the robotics company at US $1.4 billion.The European Commission released a statement…

30 Jan 24

This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University, the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. In 2009 the EPICS program was brought to IEEE by…

28 Jan 24

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In recent years, AI ethicists have had a tough job. The engineers developing generative AI tools have been racing ahead, competing with each other to create models of even more breathtaking abilities, leaving both regulators and ethicists to comment on what’s already been done. One of the people working to…

27 Jan 24

Video Friday: Medusai

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: 2 February 2024, ZURICHEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024,…

Infrared Sensors Can Now Peer Around Corners

What Is an Electronic Sackbut?

Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

The New, New Transistor

Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

Hands On Extra: OCXO Clock

Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot Falls Through

This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Video Friday: Medusai

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