Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE
The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. The agreement lets the.....»»
A Health-Monitoring Wearable That Measures Vital Signs
The health-monitoring bracelet that Pramuka Sooriyapatabandige designed can measure vital signs such as heart rate, skin temperature, blood pressure, and blood oxygen saturation. What’s more, the device should be inexpensive to manufacture and cou.....»»
Electric Drivetrain Evolution: From Past to Future
Electric drivetrain developers must adopt new technologies such as fast-switching semiconductors and higher battery voltages to improve the efficiency and range of electric vehicles.Register now to download this poster.By 2035 most industrial countr.....»»
The EV Transition Explained: Local Policies Shape Global Competition
The Biden administration is very clear on what it desires to achieve with its environmental policy: a complete transformation of the nation’s US $21 trillion economy away from fossil fuels. The administration is undertaking multiple actions to pla.....»»
Europe Gets an Exascale Supercomputer
Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer—or at least the first one that’s been made public—is coming online soon for general scientific use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Another such machine, Aurora, is seemingly.....»»
IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers
Meet the recipients of the 2023 IEEE Medals and Recognitions. The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.IEEE MEDAL OF HONORSponsor: IEEE FoundationVINTON G. CERFGoogle, LLCReston, Va.“For co-creating the Internet architectu.....»»
Video Friday: No Pilot Needed
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.ICRA.....»»
The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering
Transcript Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. But rather than giving into despair, some engineers, poli.....»»
Q&A: Brian Gerkey and Wendy Tan White on Intrinsic, Open Robotics, and ROS
Today’s announcement of the acquisition of the Open Source Robotics Corporation by Intrinsic has generated a lot of questions, and no small amount of uncertainty about how this will affect the future of ROS. We have a bunch more information in thi.....»»
Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotics
Today, Open Robotics, which is the organization that includes the nonprofit Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) as well as the for-profit Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), is announcing that OSRC is being acquired by Intrinsic, a standalon.....»»
Amazon Shows Off Lofty Plans for Delivery by Drone
The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers.Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or.....»»
This Autonomous Robot Might Soon Make Food Deliveries in Airports
Sometime next year, an autonomous robot might deliver food from an airport restaurant to your gate.The idea for Ottobot, a delivery robot, came out of a desire to help restaurants meet the increased demand for takeout orders during the COVID-19 pand.....»»
Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is one of the most well-known institutions of its kind. Located in Mountain View, Calif., the museum chronicles the impact of computing and technological innovation through artifacts and through archived films, photograph.....»»
Minuscule Sensing Suite Is a Big Step Toward Robotic Gnats
In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System. The paper explored the idea tha.....»»
Where Power Meets the Road
Rohde & Schwarz, the only supplier of fast diode sensors for power measurements up to 67 GHz, is increasing the maximum measurable frequency of diode power sensors to 90 GHz, higher than any other diode sensor currently available. The diode technolo.....»»
One-Wheel Cubli Balances Like Magic
Eight years and 14 million views ago, ETH Zurich introduced the Cubli, a robotic cube that can dynamically balance on a single point. It’s magical to watch, but at the same time fairly straightforward to understand: There are three reaction wheels.....»»
Two Startups Are Bringing Fiber to the Processor
If a CPU in Seoul sends a byte of data to a processor in Prague, the information covers most of the distance as light, zipping along with no resistance. But put both those processors on the same motherboard, and they’ll need to communicate over e.....»»
The EV Transition Explained: Converting Gasoline Superusers
“We’re never going back,” declare Jonathon and Cory Drayer of Fredericksburg, Va. Both recently traded their respective SUVs for electric vehicles (EVs), and happily swore off every buying another internal-combustion engine (ICE) powered veh.....»»
Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, h.....»»
The Tech Is Finally Good Enough for an Airship Revival
At Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research is floating a new approach to a technology that saw its rise and fall a century ago: airships. Although airships have long since been supplanted by planes, LTA, which was fo.....»»