Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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

Book review: ‘Flight Not Improbable’ by Simine Short

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

When it comes to protagonists in the early history of aviation, Octave Chanute does not spring to mind perhaps so readily as the Wright brothers, who are generally accepted as being the pioneers who invented, built and flew the first motor-operated aeroplane. Yet, as Simine Short observes at the start…

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…

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

Drivers should be taxed per mile starting with EVs, think tank says

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In its ‘The Future of Driving’ report, the centre-right think tank said that road transport in Britain generates too much congestion and air pollution and that drivers are paying more through taxation than is invested back in the road network. CPS argues that fuel duty and vehicle excise duty should…

24 May 23

Photonic chips could lower energy consumption from data centres

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Data centres can consume up to 50 times more energy per square foot of floor space than a typical office building and account for roughly 2 per cent of all electricity use in the US. In recent years, the number of data centres has risen rapidly due to soaring demand…

23 May 23

The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe. Paras Jha was an exception. Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Paras decided to crash the…

23 May 23

Cool power plants with salt water to preserve freshwater supplies, scientists say

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

With freshwater supplies threatened due to drought, climate change and rapid socioeconomic growth, water competition is increasing between the electric power sector and other sectors. Further, efforts to decarbonise fossil fuel-fired power plants by carbon capture and storage would significantly increase water consumption. “Non-traditional water sources can be deployed to…

Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Book review: ‘Flight Not Improbable’ by Simine Short

Who’s the Coolest Robot of All?

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

Drivers should be taxed per mile starting with EVs, think tank says

Photonic chips could lower energy consumption from data centres

The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cool power plants with salt water to preserve freshwater supplies, scientists say

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

IoT Sentinels Poised for Cardio Emergencies