It's not too hard to make a drone that can fly very fast, and it's not too hard to make a drone that can avoid obstacles.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 14, 2018
Researchers are moving toward commercializing skyrmion-based magnetic data storage by electrically detecting for the first time a single skyrmion at room temperature...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2018
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on small aerial drones that purposefully collide with obstacles and then move on to perform various functions...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2018
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2018
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 10, 2018
By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 5, 2017
A universal quantum computer capable of outperforming today's classical computers in solving many different problems remains the biggest future prize for many engineers...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 1, 2017
With Moore's Law slowing, engineers have been taking a cold hard look at what will keep computing going when it's gone.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 30, 2017
Researchers used their snake robots in search-and-rescue missions in Mexico City shortly after a major earthquake struck the region in September.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2017
Researchers recently unveiled a prototype for a soft, edible pneumatic actuator fabricated from gelatin, which can serve as a crucial mechanism for ingestible robots...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2017
Chinese researchers have completed a practical demonstration of quantum key distribution, showing that it's possible to encrypt and send data between two locations...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 4, 2017
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | August 31, 2017
For more than 50 years, computers have made steady and dramatic improvements, all thanks to Moore's Law—the exponential increase over time in the number of transistors...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | August 31, 2017
A scientist wanting to hack into an animal's brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there's a fourth:...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | August 29, 2017
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | August 24, 2017