Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

03 Oct 23

Happy IEEE Day!

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Happy IEEE Day! IEEE Day commemorates the first gathering of IEEE members to share their technical ideas in 1884. Worldwide celebrations demonstrate the ways thousands of IEEE members in local communities join together to collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow. IEEE Day’s theme is: “Leveraging Technology…

03 Oct 23

Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Episode 3: Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to Chatbot, a new podcast from IEEE Spectrum where robotics experts interview each other about things that they find fascinating. On this episode of Chatbot, we’ll be talking with Davide Scaramuzza and Adam…

03 Oct 23

DARPA Hopes to Beam Power Across 200 Kilometers

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Instead of using wires to deliver power, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense, wants to wirelessly beam power over hundreds of kilometers. In September, the agency announced that it has chosen three groups to design the aerial relays required for such an…

02 Oct 23

For Sustainable Batteries, Just Add a Pinch of Salt

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As cars, trucks, and buses (and even airplanes and trains) increasingly switch from burning fossil fuels to running on batteries, the demand for critical battery metals is starting to skyrocket. Electric vehicle sales are expected to double between 2023 and 2027, triggering a shortage of lithium by 2024, and of…

02 Oct 23

Nasa validates a new AI-enabled form of energy

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

During the Energy & Mobility Conference & Expo in Cleveland, Ohio, the two organisations presented alternating direct current (ADC), a hybrid of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla technologies. The research has been led by Nasa Langley Research Center scientist Narasimha Prasad PhD, with the goal of developing an AI-enabled technology…

02 Oct 23

Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Episode 2: How Labrador and iRobot Create Domestic Robots That Really Help Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a new podcast from IEEE Spectrum where robotics experts interview each other about things that they find fascinating. On this episode of ChatBot, we’ll be talking with Mike Dooley…

02 Oct 23

Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. On this episode of ChatBot, we’ll be talking with Monica Thomas and Amy LaViers about robots and dance. Monica Thomas is a dancer and choreographer. Monica has…

01 Oct 23

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. Included in its many exhibits on modern science and the progressive future was this electric desktop orrery. Much like the traditional clockwork orreries of centuries past, this unit showed the motions of the planets and other celestial objects,…

30 Sep 23

IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. That all changed this year, after a team of IEEE volunteers traveled to the village and installed…

30 Sep 23

Video Friday: Good Behaviors

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.IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS,…

Happy IEEE Day!

Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

DARPA Hopes to Beam Power Across 200 Kilometers

For Sustainable Batteries, Just Add a Pinch of Salt

Nasa validates a new AI-enabled form of energy

Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

Video Friday: Good Behaviors

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