Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

January 15, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Robert Saracco, an IEEE senior member dedicated to empowering the next generation of digital innovators in Europe, died unexpectedly on 5 December at the age of 70. He was a key figure in the creation of EIT Digital, an organization that invests in research and continuing education to bring new…

14 Jan 24

Mesh Wearables Meld Micro Sensors and LoRa Smarts

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As healthcare wearables for various medical conditions and situations proliferate, patients inevitably want their wearable tech as inconspicuous and worry-free as possible. As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto…

13 Jan 24

Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs With Hydrogen

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

At CES this past week, the trucking startup Nikola showed off a hydrogen-fueled semi truck, one of its first ever built in the U.S. But the troubled company with a convicted founder is not the only player these days seeing a promising future in fuel-cell fueled big rigs. Daimler Truck…

13 Jan 24

Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Fellows Mary Ellen Randall, John Verboncoeur, and S.K. Ramesh as candidates for 2025 IEEE president-elect.The winner of this year’s election will serve as IEEE president in 2026. For more information about the election, president-elect candidates, and petition process, visit the IEEE election…

12 Jan 24

Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

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 2024,…

12 Jan 24

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.When people think of AI applications these days, they likely think of “closed-source” AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT—where the system’s software is securely held by…

10 Jan 24

Can Electronics Become Compostable?

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 big problems. I’m your host, Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest…

09 Jan 24

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train it on a huge dataset scraped from the Web, and then use it to fulfill a broad range of user requests.…

09 Jan 24

CES 2024: Neuchips Demos Low-Power AI Upgrade For PCs

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

What if any desktop PC could become an AI inference beast with a single upgrade? And what if that transformed beast still sipped power like it was enjoying a martini? That’s the idea pitched by Neuchips, a Taiwanese startup founded in 2019 and known for delivering top-class AI efficiency. It…

09 Jan 24

This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Rebecca Richards-Kortum has spent most of her 30-year career developing technology to help improve medical care in underserved communities worldwide. Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering…

Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

Mesh Wearables Meld Micro Sensors and LoRa Smarts

Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs With Hydrogen

Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Can Electronics Become Compostable?

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

CES 2024: Neuchips Demos Low-Power AI Upgrade For PCs

This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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