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Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Makes First Flight On Mars
Earlier today, at about 11am Mars time, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its very first flight on Mars. The little…
April 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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This Startup is Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Brazil With Leadership Skills
Photo: Be.Labs Maria Clara Magalhaes THE INSTITUTE Maria Clara Magalhães grew up in Arapiraca, Brazil, a small town far from…
April 16, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Aquatic Snakebotics
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
April 16, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Nvidia’s Supercomputing CPU Puts Intel Under Pressure
An already-beleaguered Intel is now facing more fire, thanks to Nvidia announcing last Monday that it will start making CPUs…
April 16, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Why the FCC Keeps Shooting Down Requests From Companies That Want To Shoot Down Drones
When Hawthorne, Calif.-based startup Epirus decided to test a new electronic weapon last winter, it filed an application with the…
April 15, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Morpheus Turns a CPU Into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
Last summer, 580 cybersecurity researchers spent 13,000 hours trying to break into a new kind of processor. They all failed. The hack…
April 13, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Robotic Exoskeletons Could One Day Walk By Themselves
Engineers, using artificial intelligence and wearable cameras, now aim to help robotic exoskeletons walk by themselves. Increasingly, researchers around the…
April 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees “Remarkable” Efficiency Jump
Converting sunlight into hydrogen is a seemingly ideal way to address the world’s energy challenges. The process doesn’t directly involve fossil…
April 9, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Need Seed Funding For Your IEEE Project? This Program Can Help
Photo-illustration: iStockphoto THE INSTITUTE The New Initiatives Committee (NIC) welcomes IEEE members, volunteers, and representatives from IEEE organizational units who…
April 9, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Robotic Eyeball Camera
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
April 9, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Ingenuity’s Chief Pilot Explains How to Fly a Helicopter on Mars
On April 11, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take to the skies of Mars for the first time. It will…
April 8, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Are AI Algorithms Playing Fairly with Age, Gender, and Skin Color?
Does an algorithm treat people of different ages, genders, and skin colors equally, even under different lighting conditions? Facebook’s AI…
April 8, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Flywheels Turn Superconducting to Reinvigorate Grid Storage Potential
The flywheel has fallen off many people’s radar since the industry’s leader, Beacon Power, filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Though…
April 7, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Are Digital Humans the Next Step in Human-Computer Interaction?
In the fictional worlds of film and TV, artificial intelligence has been depicted as so advanced that it is indistinguishable…
April 6, 2021 by the lit pipe
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What Exactly Is Your Brain Doing When Reading Code?
Coding is becoming an increasingly vital skill. As more people learn how to code, neuroscientists are beginning to unlock the…
April 2, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Festo’s BionicSwift
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
April 2, 2021 by the lit pipe
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IBM Exec on Intel Chipmaking Collab: “Choose Your Strength”
Intel and IBM—two of the titans of the U.S. semiconductor industry over the last 40 years—have joined forces to advance…
April 1, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Bipedal Robots Are Learning To Move With Arms as Well as Legs
Most humans are bipeds, but even the best of us are really only bipeds until things get tricky. While our…
April 1, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Job For Particle Accelerators May Be Possible on Tabletop
Testing whether gravity obeys the laws of classical physics or quantum mechanics is no easy matter. Discovering mineral deposits from…
March 31, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Optical Mouse Inventor Hunts for a Covid Cure—and May Have Found One
Last March, as the Silicon Valley tech community abandoned open offices for working at home, tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch turned…
March 30, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Is Cyberwar War?
Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for Radio Spectrum. At a conference of chief technology officers in 2016, General…
March 29, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Here’s What You Need to Know About China’s Mars Rover
NASA’s Perseverance rover made its spectacular landing on Mars in February, but there’s another spacecraft still awaiting its chance at…
March 29, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Privacy Entrepreneur Adrian Gropper
Photo: Judy Fallows After graduating MIT in 1974 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, Adrian Gropper spent a few years…
March 26, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Shadow Plays Jenga, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
March 26, 2021 by the lit pipe
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The Mars Sample Return Mission Will Be a First for Humankind
With the Perseverance safely on Mars, now collecting rock and soil samples from the surface, it’s now time to plan…
March 25, 2021 by the lit pipe
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2021’s Top Ten Tech Cars: Land Rover Defender
Photo: Jaguar Land Rover The Defender shows its off-road powers, which include sensors that make sure the puddle you’re thinking…
March 24, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Today’s Cyberattacks Foreshadow Wars to Come
Cyberattacks are no longer just a matter of cybersecurity, they directly threaten a country’s national security. Cyberattacks alter the character of warfare—much like nuclear weapons…
March 24, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Programming by Voice May Be the Next Frontier in Software Development
Images: Serenade From Voice to Code: Two of the leading programming-by-speech platforms today offer different approaches to the problem of…
March 22, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Man-Machine Synergy Effector
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
March 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Can Joe Biden Deliver a Sci-Tech Renaissance?
Photo: Doug Mills/Getty Images For good or ill, the Trump administration’s U.S. technology policy—and President Barack Obama’s tech policy before…
March 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Mojo Vision Details Low-Power Chips for Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
A millimeter-scale microLED display that fits onto a contact lens to provide augmented reality is, frankly, amazing, but for it…
March 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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The U.S. Government Finally Gets Serious About IoT Security
Illustration: J.D. King The U.S. government is a larger customer of IoT products than you may realize. Veterans Affairs, for…
March 18, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Learn Who We Have to Thank for the Term Work-Life Balance
Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images Scientific management pioneers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth with 11 of their children at…
March 17, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Mathematics, Politics, and Justice Denied
Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for Radio Spectrum. Today’s episode looks at a collision of mathematics and politics.…
March 16, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Training Program Aims to Boost Startups in Low-GDP Countries
Photo: IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka Budding entrepreneurs who participated at the IEEE Innovation Nation program held in Sri Lanka.…
March 15, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Pro Sports COVID-19 Sensors Trace Rise of Ua-Wideband Tech
In the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic, professional basketball and football seasons were made possible in part by contract tracing—specifically…
March 13, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: A Walking, Wheeling Quadruped
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
March 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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This Father-and-Son Duo Was Essential to Ionospheric Research at the Arecibo Observatory
Photos: Clinton Gilliland On the left is Theodore Gilliland at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in the 1960s. On…
March 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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With This CAD for Genomes, You Can Design New Organisms
Imagine being able to design a new organism as easily as you can design a new integrated circuit. That’s the…
March 11, 2021 by the lit pipe
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It’s Time to Nominate the Next Leaders of IEEE
Illustration: iStockphoto THE INSTITUTE IEEE is governed by volunteer members and depends on them for many things including editing its…
March 10, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Duke University and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab Bring Better Optical Communications to Light
It’s a simple truth that higher frequencies can inherently carry more data than lower frequencies. The more times an electromagnetic…
March 9, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Ultra-quick Cameras Reveal How to Catch a Light Pulse Mid-Flight
The footage is something between the ghostlike and commonplace: a tiny laser pulse tracing through a box pattern, as if moving through…
March 7, 2021 by the lit pipe
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COVID’s Unlikely Offspring: The Rise of Smartwatch as Illness Detector
Smartwatches and wearable devices have come a long way beyond counting steps. They’re getting better at detecting illness, and now they…
March 6, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Nanotube-Powered Insect Robots
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
March 5, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Samsung’s 3-nm Tech Shows Nanosheet Transistor Advantage
The logic chip industry is heading toward a fundamental change in the structure of transistors. Today’s transistors, called FinFETs, will…
March 5, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Why Electronic Health Records Haven’t Helped U.S. With Vaccinations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website states that if you have or suspect you have Covid-19, to inform…
March 4, 2021 by the lit pipe
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2D video to 3D faces: Facing down a key challenge in VR
Creating a virtual experience that’s as close to real life as possible is one of virtual reality’s (VR’s) ultimate goals,…
March 3, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Review: DJI’s New FPV Drone is Effortless, Exhilarating Fun
In my experience, there are three different types of consumer drone pilots. You’ve got people for whom drones are a…
March 2, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Could “Topological Materials” Be A New Medium for Ultra-Fast Electronics?
Illustration: Ames Laboratory/U.S. Department of Energy Schematic of light-induced properties of the “topological material” zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe 5) Potential future transistors…
March 1, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Libertarians Were Wrong to Cheer Sweden’s Laissez-Faire COVID-19 Response
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions…
February 26, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Meet Catfish Charlie, the CIA’s Robotic Spy
Photo: CIA Museum CIA roboticists designed Catfish Charlie to take water samples undetected. Why they wanted a spy fish for…
February 26, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: A Blimp For Your Cat
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
February 26, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Treat Smart City Tech like Sewers, or Better
Illustration: Greg Mably Smart cities, like many things, took a beating in 2020. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, pulled its Sidewalk…
February 25, 2021 by the lit pipe
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AI Recodes Legacy Software to Operate on Modern Platforms
Last year, IBM demonstrated how AI can perform the tedious job of software maintenance through the updating of legacy code. Now Big…
February 24, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Reversing Climate Change by Pulling Carbon Out of the Air
Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for Radio Spectrum. Let’s face it. The United States, and, really, the entire…
February 23, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Onboard Video of the Perseverance Rover Landing is the Most Incredible Thing I’ve Ever Seen
At a press conference this afternoon, NASA released a new video showing, in real-time and full color, the entire descent…
February 22, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Soft Legged Robot Uses Pneumatic Circuitry to Walk Like a Turtle
Soft robots are inherently safe, highly resilient, and potentially very cheap, making them promising for a wide array of applications. But development…
February 20, 2021 by the lit pipe
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How IEEE Conferences Thrived Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic
Illustration: IEEE Spectrum THE INSTITUTE If you have enjoyed attending any of the thousands of IEEE virtual conferences and events…
February 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Perseverance Lands on Mars
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
February 19, 2021 by the lit pipe
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A 150kph Boat Powered by Wind Only
The sailing speed record has been held for 8 years. A team of students and young engineers is in the…
February 18, 2021 by the lit pipe
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How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars
Tucked under the belly of the Perseverance rover that will be landing on Mars in just a few days is…
February 17, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Darpa Hacks Its Secure Hardware, Fends Off Most Attacks
Last summer, Darpa asked hackers to take their best shots at a set of newly designed hardware architectures. After 13,000…
February 16, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Two Health Sensors Unite in One Powerful Gadget
What’s not to love about a good flexible health sensor? Someday technology based on such bendable electronic tech might well replace some…
February 15, 2021 by the lit pipe
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The First Battery-Powered Tanker is Coming to Tokyo
A new ship powered only by lithium-ion batteries is coming to Japan’s coastline. The 60-meter-long tanker will be the first…
February 14, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Are You Brave Enough to Eat 3D-Printed Steak?
Israeli company Aleph Farms is the first to 3D-print a ribeye steak using proprietary bioprinting technology and cultured animal cells.…
February 14, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Elon Musk Wants the Tesla Roadster to Hover, Hopefully without Killing You
If you have more money to spend on cars than many people spend on houses, Tesla’s upcoming Roadster looks better and better…
February 14, 2021 by the lit pipe
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How to Mute Your Google Smart Speaker or Display’s Microphone
Google Assistant smart speakers and displays are designed to listen to voice commands and respond with answers. However, you may…
February 14, 2021 by the lit pipe
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How Microsoft Could Redefine the Power Industry with Quantum Computing
THE INSTITUTE Governments and tech companies have been investing heavily in quantum computing in the hopes that it will revolutionize…
February 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Multiphysics Modeling of MEMS
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are fundamentally driven by multiphysics phenomena, and as such, they require a modeling approach where the relevant…
February 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Video Friday: Digit Takes a Hike
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a…
February 12, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Get started with our IoTConnect® Platform today
Bringing an IoT-enabled product to market is no easy task. Fortunately, the balance of Avnet’s IoTConnect® Platform and ON Semiconductor’s…
February 11, 2021 by the lit pipe
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Hyundai Motor Group Introduces Two New Robots
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a couple of new robots from Hyundai Motor Group. This is a couple…
February 11, 2021 by the lit pipe
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3D-Printed Thruster Boosts Range of CubeSat Applications
A new 3-D printed electric thruster could one day help make advanced miniature satellites significantly easier and more affordable to…
February 11, 2021 by the lit pipe
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