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Creepy robots and the strange phenomenon of the uncanny valley: definition, history, examples, and how to avoid it

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin

The first device to use radio reflections to detect objects is now an IEEE Milestone

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation

A new technique to identify individuals using sound is nearly as accurate as fingerprints and iris scans

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

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Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

The need to decrease the bill of material (BOM) costs in embedded products is being driven by the need for high volume, low-cost sensor systems.

By creating digital prototypes of a sensor design, engineers can save months of R&D effort

The Atlantic Telegraph Company’s 1858 failure set the stage for success just eight years later

New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives

Being too late to market and dropping the ball on fundraising can spoil your business plans

By combining aspects of a few different headphone types, Yamaha produced an audio breakthrough that still resounds

Jay Schmuecker’s Iowa farm uses solar power to generate fuel and fertilizer on-site

A child’s toy helped propel Texas Instruments into a huge new technical discipline: digital signal processing

When the inventor of an electronic stud sensor showed his prototype to some big tool companies, not one of them was interested

The original telephone answering machine weighed four and a half kilograms and sold for $300

The first satellite-radio subscription service tried to fix all the problems of terrestrial commercial radio

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you

Israel’s Tel Aviv isn’t the next Silicon Valley, but it is home to more startups than almost anywhere else

Maryland researchers prompt creative thinking for spacecraft design by studying how electrostatic forces affect space dust

The text message-based software app has helped the operator of 187 pizza shops cut the time it takes to hire hourly workers in half

“Real” engineers can do anything, but maybe that’s not the right goal

Gaming pioneer Michael Zyda talks about immersive experiences, training developers, and the impact of e-sports

Sandia National Labs is upgrading its line for making chips for nuclear weapons, and SkyWater Technology Foundry is adding radiation hardening and copper interconnects to its toolkit

Community microgrids, rooftop solar, and battery storage would help Puerto Rico weather the next big storm

During the extended blackout, these electrical engineers and their families relied on rooftop solar and battery storage—an approach they'd been advocating for years

This clever approach could lead to more efficient organic light-emitting diodes for TVs and smartphone screens

Blue Frog Robotics CEO Rodolphe Hasselvander on the future of Buddy

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language

Send data via IPv4 up to 300 kilometers with easy-to-assemble hardware

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DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge may have proved the idea is feasible, but there’s a long way to go for AI-managed spectrum sharing

Google's quantum supremacy demonstration is a grand physics experiment underwritten by Silicon Valley money

Q&A with IEEE Executive Director Stephen Welby about the TryEngineering Together program

Relativity Space is reinventing rocketry with additive manufacturing

The flyers are just one of several airborne wind energy technologies that could shape the future of wind power

Researchers argue for audit systems to catch cases of algorithmic bias

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

Media Lab’s Caleb Harper claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a refugee camp in Jordan, but an investigation by IEEE Spectrum reveals that it never happened

The team that prevailed in the three-year Spectrum Collaboration Challenge walked away with US $2 million

A young engineering genius used a computer to design a filter and the result was the greatest FM tuner ever built

To make the first affordable high-resolution inkjet printer, Epson first had to invent something called Micro Piezo technology

Computational storage enables organizations to create customer value by maximizing the benefits of big data.

The chain of events leading to the first popular smoke alarm for homes started with a chain-smoking technician

Beamforming EMI Effects on a DDR4 Bus of a 5G Smartphone

The first DSLR camera aimed at consumers was a stripped-down version of a professional camera that had been introduced just six months earlier