Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter
Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs proved far more capable
Video Friday: Feisty ANYmal, TechEthics, and Belated Robot Holidays
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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Who’s Hiring (BAE Systems, Amazon, ARM) Who’s Firing (Oath, Brocade Cisco)
Yahoo, Brocade acquisitions spark the biggest layoffs; a good time to be a defense engineer
Coaxing Light From Graphene
How a research institute near Barcelona exploits graphene’s potential in light-based technologies to advance 5G efforts
IEEE Spectrum’s Most Popular Stories of 2017
Here are the technology stories that captured your attention this year
Cargo Industry Tests Seaplane Drones to Deliver Freight
Startup Natilus’s prototype aims to complete its first water trials, with flight tests to follow
This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn't Need GPS
Without GPS or any other kind of external localization, a dozen of UPenn's quadrotors can fly in formation outdoors
Animals vs Electronics
Watch animals of all sizes attack, lick, befriend, and otherwise interact with electronic devices
The Netherlands Confronts a Carbon Dilemma: Sequester or Recycle?
Public opposition to sequestration will make it harder to reach the country’s carbon reduction goal
DARPA's AI Spectrum Management Challenge Completes its First Round
The U.S. agency is going big on solving the spectrum management problem
The High School Student Who’s Building His Own Integrated Circuits
Sam Zeloof has turned his parent’s garage into a 1970s-era fab
Video Friday: Happy Robot Holidays, AI Folding Laundry, and RoboThespian's TED Talk
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Hacked Dog Pics Can Play Tricks on Computer Vision AI
An MIT student lab shows how to trick computer vision AI so it sees the wrong objects in pictures
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Why You Shouldn't Fear 'Slaughterbots'
A dystopian future in which killer robots are massacring innocents is terrifying, but let’s be clear: It's very much science fiction
After the Fire: HP Archivist Pledges to Rebuild What She Can
Little was digitized, much was lost, but some copies of Hewlett-Packard’s key historical documents may remain in the wild
Automatic Circuit Reclosers Probed as Potential Cause of California Fires
California utilities have not maxed out advanced technology and safer practices to reduce fire risk from downed power lines
The European Union at 60: It Should Be Happy, but It Isn't
The economic and political achievements scored in recovering from the World War and surviving the Cold War are almost forgotten
Compounds Made From Metal-Organic Frameworks Could Challenge Conventional Semiconductors
The ability engineer new properties into MOFs might be a game changer for sensors and solar cells
Ad Astra Diplomacy
Showy and expensive, space exploration is a fine tool for fostering international cooperation
Skin-Like Biosensor Offers Needle-Free Blood Sugar Monitoring
Non-invasive glucose reader is pain-free and conforms to the skin
Italy Launches a New Wireless Network for the Internet of Things
Similar networks built on LTE-M and NB-IoT technology are now operating in 21 countries
We Can’t Tell if Tech is Doing Better on Diversity Because the Data Stinks
Panelists at Inclusion in Tech summit ask if Apple should really be counting Genius Bar employees as engineers
2017: The Year In Robocars
Promises of self-driving cars are beginning to come due
The Challenges in High Volume Manufacturing of Photonic Devices for Data Center Applications
Photonic devices such as optical transceivers play vital roles in modern data centers. Demand for photonic devices is at an unprecedented level. And the technology upgrades are expected to happen at the same time of this volume ramp, e.g. 40G to 100G and to 200G/400G and beyond.
Minimally Actuated Robot Arm Has Lots of Joints, Just One Clever Motor
A motor that travels along unactuated joints makes for a flexible, reconfigurable manipulator
Use the ezPixel FPGA Board to Control Giant Arrays of Smart LEDs
The ezPixel lets your microcontroller handle over 9,000 WS212B LEDs
The Beautiful Mind of Neural Networks
A “second-best” technology moves to the center of our lives
Multi-Physics Simulation – Critical Systems Driven Product Development Strategies for Smart Appliances/White Goods
Details and best practices that can shed light on how multi-physics simulation is making a systems driven product development approach possible for smart household appliances.
A New Route to High-Sensitivity Pressure Sensors
Research at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and at Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEAv) reveals new designs for optical fiber pressure sensors.
Simulation Apps Bring STEM to Life
University of Hartford integrates simulation apps into undergraduate engineering courses to prepare students for their future careers.