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How Open-Source Robotics Hardware Is Accelerating Research and Innovation
Open hardware systems could make robots more affordable and easier to build
How to Escape the PowerPoint Prison
Presentations don’t have to provoke despair
More Renewable Energy Means More Operating Reserves, Right? Wrong
How changes in regulations have resulted in a decrease in operating reserves
Meet Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the Writers Behind the Sci-Fi Horror Movie Life
The International Space Station becomes a hunting ground for a Martian creature
A Better Way to Organize the Internet: Content-Centric Networking
An ambitious new networking scheme promises to make the Internet safer and more reliable
Harvard Develops a Cheap Smartphone Test for Male Fertility
Harvard's home testing kit for male fertility would just need your smartphone and semen sample
President Trump Needs an Engineering Adviser
The new president could use advice from a practical problem solver
Power Components for Battery Applications
Today, many systems from electric vehicles and home energy storage to communications infrastructure, use batteries to enable portable power or provide a fall back in the event that mains power fails.
Lice-Hunting Underwater Drone Protects Salmon With Lasers
Yes, fish get lice. Laser-wielding robot will help salmon farmers shoot their way out of the problem
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Database in Rail Systems
As rail systems generate more data, developers need to rethink how they process this information.
DIY Lego Robot Brings Lab Automation to Students
Stanford researchers design Lego robot kit so students can automate their chemistry experiments
Software Engineering Jobs Dominate List of Best Careers for 2017
Jobs site Indeed: Full stack developer is best career; machine learning engineers earn more
Hackers Try to Steal Self-Driving Tech From China's Baidu
Robocar IP gets the most sincere complement of all: people are stealing it
Sequential Programming Considered Harmful?
Russ Miller wants computer science students to think in parallel from the get-go
The Bunny, the Witch, and the WarRoom
Sharon Weinberger’s new book, The Imagineers of War, reveals some real-life X-Files
Facebook Seeking Top EE to Help It Cross Into Consumer Electronics
Facebook aims to hire an “impatient individual” as head EE on a fast-growing team of hardware engineers
What’s Different About Surveillance Servers?
As surveillance systems continue to evolve, their requirements are diverging from those of standard servers. Knowing a bit about the forces transforming surveillance can help you build the fittest server in the jungle.
Flying Saucer Quantum Dots: The Secret to Better, Brighter Lasers
The elliptical shape makes the lasing process easier
Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs
Japanese materials company prototypes a 26.3% efficient silicon cell, steps away from the 29% theoretical maximum
This Self-Poofing Fabric Transforms From T-Shirt to Parka
Otherlab’s self-fluffing fabric changes its insulation in response to temperature
5 Things You Missed: Intel Inside Self-Driving Cars, Reversing Paralysis, and More
Highlights from the week of 13 March 2017
Video Friday: Robots Rapping, Robo-Boat Competition, and Wall-Avoiding Drone
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Trump Dumps Climate Science and Innovation in 2018 Budget Blueprint
President Donald Trump outlined a fiscal 2018 budget request that asks Congress to stamp out federal climate science and slash investment in energy innovation
X-rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits
With X-ray ptychography, researchers take the first step toward being able to easily map a chip for reverse engineering
Smartphone Accelerometers Can Be Fooled by Sound Waves
University of Michigan researchers spoof an accelerometer by hitting the right note
Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Teleoperating complex robots is really hard, and Georgia Tech is working to fix that
Combining Twisted Light and Plasmons Could Supercharge Data Storage
Creating and observing the orbital angular momentum of plasmons could open up a new data-storage system
Tesla Teams With Tiny Hawaiian Utility to Store Solar
Kauai Island Electric Cooperative is taking advantage of solar PV price drops and emerging battery technology to reinvent itself
Robotic Kelp Farms Promise an Ocean Full of Carbon-Neutral, Low-Cost Energy
Open-ocean kelp farms with drone shepherds could provide renewable energy that doesn't take up land area
Why Mary Lou Jepsen Left Facebook: To Transform Health Care and Invent Consumer Telepathy
Her device uses near-infrared to provide MRI-resolution imaging in a cheap wearable
Robot Knows the Right Question to Ask When It's Confused
Understanding when they don't understand will help make robots more useful
Introduction to EMC Compatibility
This paper is intended to provide the reader with a basic understanding of Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility, the various standards and specifications associated with being compliant
The Nobelists and Their Molecular Machines
Development is incremental in molecular nanotechnology, but it is coming along slowly
Fractus Antennas Pitches New “Antenna-less” Smartphone Technology
Instead of a dedicated antenna, their approach radiates radio-frequency signals from the ground plane
One Small Step for a Paraplegic, One Big Step Toward Reversing Paralysis
A clinical trial in Switzerland is testing a spinal implant to help paralyzed people walk again
Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space?
Einstein and Heisenberg suggest that exact time measurements can produce tiny gravitational fields
Deep Learning First: Drive.ai's Path to Autonomous Driving
These cars use deep learning to turn past experience into better decisions
Intel Buys Mobileye for $15 billion
The deal rounds out two years of frenetic robocar acquisitions
Silicon Valley Computational Drug Startup Takes on Glaucoma
Palo Alto startup twoXAR partners with Santen Pharmaceutical to identify new glaucoma drugs; efforts on rare skin disease, liver cancer, atherosclerosis, and diabetic nephropathy also underway
SXSW 2017: If the Internet Has a Kill Switch, We Are It
Policies and human beings are the weak points in ensuring a reliable and available Internet, experts say
5 Things You Missed This Week at IEEE Spectrum: A Bio-Inspired Drone, ARPA-E's Energy-Saving Innovations, and More
Highlights from the week of 6 March 2017
How Drive.ai Is Mastering Autonomous Driving with Deep Learning
Deep learning from the ground up helps Drive's cars handle the challenges of autonomous driving
With Synthetic Biology Software, Geneticists Design Living Organisms From Scratch
Project that aims to build a synthetic yeast pioneers the design and debugging of chromosomes
California Gives the Green Light to Self-Driving Cars
Companies could be allowed to operate and sell autonomous vehicles by the end of the year
Video Friday: Brain Scanning Baxter, Burger Flipping Arm, and Elevators With Feelings
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit: Self-Fluffing Fabrics and the World's Coolest Paint
We check out prototypes from a government-funded future of efficient, affordable energy
At SXSW, Don't Miss These IEEE Spectrum Events
We bring you Vint Cerf, a debate on synthetic biology, and the latest news on Moore's Law
This Hard-to-Destroy Drone Goes From Rigid to Flexible When It Crashes
Inspiration for this design came from insect wings
After WikiLeaks, a Recap of How the U.S. Government Discloses a Zero-Day
Through the secretive Vulnerability Equities Process, agencies determine whether to share software vulnerabilities with manufacturers
Is This Twilight for the Golden Age of Earth Observation?
NASA’s new geosensing satellites may be on the chopping block. The timing could hardly be worse
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