Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

19 Nov 23

An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

After Vic Wintriss sold his sports-imaging company, Wintriss Engineering, to his cofounders in 2006, the electrical engineer was looking for a project to keep himself busy. Wintriss Engineering, based in San Diego, makes smart cameras for sports imaging such as tracking golf balls and inspecting paper, textiles, and plastics. While…

18 Nov 23

Video Friday: GR-1

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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024,…

18 Nov 23

Radomes: Efficient 3D EM Simulation

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Highly efficient implementation of Method-of-Moments (MoM) for radome simulations in WIPL-D suite is described in this comprehensive study. Sophisticated approximations rather than geometrical or physical optics (GO, PO) methods were used. Straightforward usage and effectiveness of in-house developed techniques along with efficient utilization of graphical processing units (GPU) are explained.Download…

17 Nov 23

New Watch Motor Seeks to Outsmart the Smartwatch

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Could the analog quartz wristwatch, a mainstay of the timepiece market for more than half a century, be headed finally for a high-tech makeover? A French startup, SilMach, in Besançon, France, is betting big that it is. The company has used silicon microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to produce an entirely new…

17 Nov 23

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California has spawned many pioneering computer technologies including the Alto—the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface—and the first laser printer.The PARC facility also is known for the invention of Ethernet, a networking technology that allows high-speed data transmission over coaxial…

16 Nov 23

Should Data Centers Be Kept Cool—Or Warm?

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Across the globe, data centers are stacked to the ceiling with shelf after shelf of humming servers. The collective number of operating CPUs is taking a toll on data centers’ energy bills, but the real culprit driving up the facilities’ energy costs may actually be their thermostats. Like humans, computers…

16 Nov 23

Steel industry urges government to cut electricity prices to stay competitive

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Trade body UK Steel has launched a report that finds a “vast chasm” between UK energy prices for industry and those in Europe. It found that steelmakers in the UK pay nearly two times as much as those in Germany and France, partly due to higher grid connection costs in…

16 Nov 23

UK to pay 66 per cent more for offshore wind energy after failed auction

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Contracts for Difference (CFD) auctions invite companies to bid to develop renewable energy projects in the UK and give them a guaranteed minimum price for the electricity they will generate. The system also means that if electricity prices in the future rise above that level, the companies pay the excess…

16 Nov 23

GM and Stellantis Back Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? A newly announced partnership between General Motors and the startup magnet company Niron Magnetics suggests a resounding “yes.” That…

15 Nov 23

Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to additive manufacturing that can print both rigid and elastic materials at the same time in high resolution. The new work is the result…

An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

Video Friday: GR-1

Radomes: Efficient 3D EM Simulation

New Watch Motor Seeks to Outsmart the Smartwatch

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years

Should Data Centers Be Kept Cool—Or Warm?

Steel industry urges government to cut electricity prices to stay competitive

UK to pay 66 per cent more for offshore wind energy after failed auction

GM and Stellantis Back Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet

Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

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