Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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,…

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.…

07 Dec 23

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

It would be an overstatement to say that the modern world runs on rare-earth elements. But as overstatements go, that one has more than a grain of truth.Because of their unique luminescent, electrochemical, and magnetocrystalline properties, rare-earth elements are essential to some of the most important and fastest-growing tech-based industries.…

07 Dec 23

AMD’s Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

AMD lifted the hood on its next AI accelerator chip, the Instinct MI300, at the AMD Advancing AI event today, and it’s an unprecedented feat of 3D integration. MI300, a version of which will power the El Capitan supercomputer, is a layer-cake of computing, memory, and communication that’s three slices…

06 Dec 23

Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

With all the concern surrounding artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that top tech leaders surveyed by IEEE chose AI as the most important technology for 2024.“The Impact of Technology in 2024 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study” consulted 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China,…

05 Dec 23

Thermoelectric Heating Comes In From the Cold

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Before architect César Martín Gómez could send his latest thermoelectric experiment to Antarctica in 2018, he had to make sure that soldiers from the Spanish Army could get it right on the first try. In the laboratory, he could always run the experiment—a scale model of a solid-state thermoelectric heater—a…

05 Dec 23

Listening In On Eye Movement

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Every time our eyes move, so do our eardrums. That connection allows the auditory system to “listen” to the eyes, according to researchers at Duke University. Now, the researchers have eavesdropped on that signal to better understand how the brain connects what it sees with what it hears. They report…

Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

Why Li-Fi Might be Better than Wi-Fi

VR Goggles for Mice. Wait, What?

Video Friday: Floppybot

Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

AMD’s Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip

Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

Thermoelectric Heating Comes In From the Cold

Listening In On Eye Movement

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