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A new reading list aims to address racial inequality in academic robotics by highlighting the work of Black researchers

Tech professionals involved with consumer product development claim top earnings spot in IEEE-USA’s latest salary survey

Designing semiconductor circuits hand-in-hand with microfluidic cooling systems could mean huge boosts in efficiency

Toronto-based Xanadu suggests its system could scale up to millions of qubits

The Life Fellow received the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor

The new system eliminates the rat's nest of wiring and collects information that can be used to design better batteries

Machine learning shows some promise in boosting contact tracing technologies meant for detecting nearby phones

By accounting for inertial forces, the new design can reduce the metabolic energy required by the user

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SkyDrive’s success in conducting a piloted eVTOL test indicates short-hop flights are close to commercial reality

Startup Seatrec has developed underwater energy harvesting charging stations for monitoring, mining and military drones

Planning of satellite communication links or even whole networks is a very demanding task.

The organization is working to overcome challenges brought on by the pandemic

The IEEE Board of Directors sanctions a member

The robot could one day reduce the need for humans to take on the risky job of climbing coconut trees

Pliant Energy says its C-Ray robot could be a less invasive tool for ocean mining

Researchers develop a solar tech that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen with record efficiency

IBM looks to revolutionize industrial chemistry and in the process may have cut the discovery time for Covid-19 treatments in half

The website, developed by high school students, contains information about wait times and the number of available ICU beds

The website, developed by high school students, contains information about wait times and the number of available ICU beds

MIT spinoff harnesses optical computing to make neural-networks run faster and more efficiently

Musk's company Neuralink demonstrates fully implantable chip in pigs

Developed by a Portuguese research team, the device sends an alert if it senses trouble

Engineering couldn’t cure a devastating illness, but it could still help someone cope with it

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How and why we spend trillions to keep old software going

Tiny Naganohara aims to beat the world and operate the first self-driving amphibious bus for tourists

It's what Carp, Crocodiles and Kikkoman have in common

Foldable, ballistically launched SQUID drones could one day deploy to Mars

Momentum Dynamics' inductive energy transfer method gives city dwellers convenient charging without space-invading charging stations

Researchers can send 178 terabits/sec through a cable in the lab. The trick will be getting this bandwidth into the real world

ATI Industrial Automation brings its Force/Torque Sensor from the factory floor to the harsh environment of Mars’ surface.

Since the days of Nikola Tesla, engineers have tried to make it practical to transmit large amounts of electricity. A government-backed startup says they are close

Pretending to be the IRS, even in self-defense, turns out to be a bad idea

Game developers use motion-capture tech to teach Cruise’s autonomous vehicles to understand gestures

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Discover how easy it is to update your instrument to test the latest wireless standards.

"Thinking that autonomy was the destination was where I was just completely wrong," iRobot CEO says

Niels Ryberg Finsen pioneered therapeutic ultraviolet lamps and won himself a Nobel Prize

Participants will learn how to communicate with other engineers in a technical setting

A new model predicts the two-year lifespan of an app with 85% efficiency

Endoculus will make your next colonoscopy more robotic, if not more comfortable

Machine assembly has commenced, but this gigantic nuclear fusion experiment costing tens of billions of dollars is nowhere near starting up

Director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke explains the company’s path toward “quantum practicality”

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AxiDraw plotters have become a new platform for tinkerers. This smaller model is perfect for experiments

IEEE established the Frances E. Allen Medal in her honor this year

The sensor, designed to support smart home technology, can run on a 9-volt battery

While coprocessors have taken many forms, the most important one today is the cloud


Without any batteries or electronics at all, this 88-milligram autonomous robotic insect can walk for hours