Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

28 May 23

Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: they’re automated hydroponic systems that take care of water and nutrients and (fake) sunlight, and they…

27 May 23

The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal conditions. But the relays could neither locate the faults nor accurately record what happened. Then, in 1977, Edmund O. Schweitzer III invented the…

27 May 23

Wakka Wakka! This Turing Machine Plays Pac-Man

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As I read the newest papers about DNA-based computing, I had to confront a rather unpleasant truth. Despite being a geneticist who also majored in computer science, I was struggling to bridge two concepts—the universal Turing machine, the very essence of computing, and the von Neumann architecture, the basis of…

26 May 23

Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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.ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDONEnergy Drone & Robotics Summit:…

26 May 23

Who’s the Coolest Robot of All?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help. Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly 250 robots, and we want your opinion to decide which are the coolest, most wanted, and also creepiest robots out…

26 May 23

How to Achieve Open, AI Native 6G Networks

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

One of the clearest pictures we have of future 6G networks is that they will be AI-based and leverage open interfaces. In order to accommodate the complexity and low-latency targets expected for 6G networks AI will be both a requisite service and application. It will mark a change from the…

25 May 23

Meet the Forksheet: Imec’s In-Between Transistor

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The most advanced manufacturers of computer processors are in the middle of the first big change in device architecture in a decade—the shift from finFETs to nanosheets. Another ten years should bring about another fundamental change, where nanosheet devices are stacked atop each other to form complementary FETs (CFETs), capable…

25 May 23

Britain lowers energy price cap to £2,074 a year, but bills could still rise

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Great Britain's energy price cap will fall to £2,074 a year, this summer. However, households could see little relief, as the government-imposed energy price guarantee (EPG), will come to an end at the same time. The lowering of the energy price cap could mark the first time consumers on default…

24 May 23

Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

There was a time, decades really, when all it took to make a better computer chip were smaller transistors and narrower interconnects. That time’s long gone now, and although transistors will continue to get a bit smaller, simply making them so is no longer the point. The only way to…

24 May 23

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Billions of people around the world use a messaging app equipped with end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. In theory, end-to-end encryption means that only the sender and receiver hold the keys they need to decrypt their message. Not even an app’s owners can peek in.In the eyes…

Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening

The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

Wakka Wakka! This Turing Machine Plays Pac-Man

Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Who’s the Coolest Robot of All?

How to Achieve Open, AI Native 6G Networks

Meet the Forksheet: Imec’s In-Between Transistor

Britain lowers energy price cap to £2,074 a year, but bills could still rise

Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

Psychedelics startups counter stereotypes to bring hallucinogens into mental healthcare

EV Startups, Running Out Of Juice

Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Green hydrogen production costs could be lowered with new method

Apple’s rumoured mixed reality headset may be the miracle the European XR industry needs