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Qing Shi and colleagues at China's Beijing Institute of Technology built a rat-inspired robot that can squeeze through tight spaces, which could be used to assess...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2022
A team of multi-institutional scientists has developed a single-fiber acoustic sensor that can transform fabrics into microphones and speakers.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2022
High prices have pushed some toward collective ownership, but the future of virtual properties is uncertain.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | March 31, 2022
Researchers at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a robot that moves like an inchworm and can make its way between horizontal and vertical planes...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 29, 2021
Tests uggest the new RISC-V-based Snitch processor used in parallel can be 3.5 times more energy efficient than other benchmark designs, and six times faster.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2021
An international team of scientists has discovered that antiferromagnets could make computer memory significantly faster and more efficient.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2021
A new robotic insulin delivery system can be implanted surgically in the abdomen, and resupplied with insulin via swallowed magnetic capsules.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2021
A robotic eel designed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne can swim through water and receive sensory data while in motion.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 16, 2021
Shift to 7-nanometer process boosts the second-generation chip's transistor count to a mind-boggling 2.6 trillion.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 15, 2021