Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2018
A sprawling robot at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel upgrades an earlier design's wheel-leg mobility so it can scale impediments.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2018
Cornell University researchers have devised ways for biodegradable robotic actuators to be powered by popping corn.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2018
Leveraging recent advances in optimal and nonlinear control systems, the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a bipedal...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 2, 2018
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 26, 2018
It's summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it's time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 7, 2018
Computer scientists have now invented a way to hide secret messages in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of letters.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 16, 2018
Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 9, 2018
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed an intuitive, wearable drone control system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2018
Using small, rotating magnetic fields, researchers controlled nanomachines inside of living cells to trace the letters "N" and "M."
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2018
In 1981, Richard Feynman suggested that a quantum computer might be able to simulate the evolution of quantum systems much better than classical computers. Except...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 18, 2018
Researchers at Fudan University in China have created a new gate design for transistors using two-dimensional materials
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2018
Researchers are studying how to use augmented reality to change drones into remote cameras that an untrained user can easily control.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2018
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you'd have...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 13, 2018
In a development that could lead to washable, sensor-laden smart clothes and wearable electronics, researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have molded a...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2018
The University of Illinois' Naresh Shanbhag is pushing for a new computer architecture that blends computing and memory so devices can be smarter without consuming...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2018