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Two New Wheelchairs Reveal What “Smart” Really Means Today
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (996+ words) App-controlled chairs are not the same as self-driving ones Jason Hahr is a 2025 IEEE Spectrum Taenzer Fellow in disability rights and assistive technology journalism. Strutt [left] and Robooter [right] both call their powered wheelchairs “smart,” but each mobility device solves…...
Would You Let This Humanoid Robot Do Your Laparoscopic Surgery?
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (12+ words) IEEE Spectrum...
Why Indonesia’s Fisheries Future Hinges On Data Integrity and Trust
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (626+ words) Yogi Putranto is a fisheries intelligence and surveillance official at the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Indonesia is monitoring fishing in its waters with a growing array of remote sensing and analytical tools. In the eastern Indian Ocean,…...
How 800 VDC for Data Centers Tames AI Power Swings
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (345+ words) Nvidia and data center industry clamor for 800VDC Drew Robb is a freelance writer specializing in engineering and IT. Dimaag’s solution isolates DC load fluctuations from the grid and delivers voltage support that can respond to demand shifts in real time…...
Stable Jobs Can Hide the Riskiest Move In Your Tech Career
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (893+ words) Strive for better opportunities and cutting-edge skills Brian Jenney is the owner of Parsity, a program that helps engineers through hands-on training. Before we get into this week’s article, I’d love to hear from you. If you have a question…...
There's a Market for AI Art. It's Complicated.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (535+ words) Collectors say it takes much more than a clever prompt A visitor views “The Sanctuary,” part of Refik Anadol’s Machine Dreams: Rainforest exhibition at Dataland, the world’s first generative AI museum. In May, an anonymous artist who goes by SHL0MS on…...
Stealth Ukraine Ground Drones Hunt In the Dark
1+ week, 2+ day ago (802+ words) RoverTech’s Zmyi uncrewed ground vehicle moved through a forest during a demonstration. Drozhak is a co-founder and CEO of RoverTech, which manufactures the Zmyi, one of Ukraine’s most successful ground robots. Zmyi, Ukrainian for snake, is an 800-kilogram (1,700-pound) rover,…...
Are Battery PoweredTrailers the Shortcut to Cleaner Long Haul Freight?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (150+ words) European pilot joins the quest to electrify trailers Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum and the history of technology for The Institute. Krone, the trailer manufacturer, has adopted the automotive supplier ZF’s TrailTrax platform, as has BPW—the same…...
Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots
1+ week, 3+ day ago (221+ words) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. For the first time, two full teams of humanoid robots played an 11-vs-11 soccer match. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected…...
A Brief History of Fireworks
2+ week, 3+ day ago (439+ words) The July issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! How fireworks became the technology of celebration Allison Marsh is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the codirector of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society. Fireworks have…...