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System Boosts Speech Volume Based on Brain Signal
6+ hour, 13+ min ago (489+ words) Adaptive sound control could help those with hearing loss It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the…...
Watch Atlas Lift and Spin Like a Pro in This Week's Video Friday
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (275+ words) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum's robotics editor. That's a lot of joints rotating 360 degrees at the same time. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at…...
Will Robotics Have a Breakthrough Chat GPT Moment?
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (262+ words) A single breakthrough AI moment in robotics may not be the answer Jonathan Hurst is the co-founder and chief robot officer of Agility Robotics and a robotics professor at Oregon State University. Hans Peter Br'ndmo was a VP at Google…...
Graphene Leaf Tattoos Turn Plants Into Living Moisture Meters
1+ week, 3+ day ago (665+ words) A collection of thin, flexible sensors could monitor plant hydration in drought-prone areas Researchers used a graphene "tattoo" to monitor the hydration of a Monstera leaf. A hydrated leaf is a healthy leaf. That's true for the leaves of crop…...
Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era
1+ week, 3+ day ago (814+ words) The Applied Materials EPIC Center re-engineers the semiconductor R&D model The Applied Materials EPIC Center will deliver state'of'the'art cleanroom capabilities built from the ground up to shorten the path from early'stage research to full'scale manufacturing. This sponsored article is…...
Tiny Data Centers at Substations Aim to Keep AI Power Usage In Check
1+ week, 4+ day ago (669+ words) Nvidia and its partners will build a fleet of small data centers right next to substations Emily Waltz is the power and energy editor at IEEE Spectrum. Dina Genkina is the computing and hardware editor at IEEE Spectrum The rise…...
Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale
1+ week, 4+ day ago (504+ words) On documents it had not been trained on, Transkribus had character error rates of around 8 percent. Humphries" best LLM-based approach pushed that below 2 percent, while completing the work 50 times as fast and at roughly 1/50th the cost. Transkribus, for its part,…...
Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (648+ words) But researchers disagree on how to measure AI clinical reasoning Now, a large language model (LLM) from Open AI has outperformed physicians on several clinical reasoning tasks using real emergency room records, according to a study published 30 April in Science. The…...
General AI Outruns Specialized Tools at Transcribing Handwriting
1+ week, 4+ day ago (430+ words) On documents it had not been trained on, Transkribus had character error rates of around 8 percent. Humphries" best LLM-based approach pushed that below 2 percent, while completing the work 50 times as fast and at roughly 1/50th the cost. Transkribus, for its part,…...
IEEE Program Aims to Connect the Billions Who Are Still Offline
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1664+ words) Connecting the Unconnected seeks out innovators expanding access Kathy Pretz is the editor in chief of The Institute, IEEE's member publication During a Connect a Community event held in November in a rural village near Bangalore, India, IEEE Connecting the…...