Tata Sons There was a time when managing the family farm in India would have been Natarajan “Chandra” Chandrasekaran’s path, but his love of computer programming derailed that plan. After returning home from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in applied sciences, Chandra (as he likes to be called) tried his hand […]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA […]
New advances in robotics can help push the limits of the human body to make us faster or stronger. But now researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University (SNU) have designed an exosuit that corrects body posture. Their recent paper describes the Movement Reshaping (MR) Exosuit, which, rather than augmenting any part of […]
Artificial intelligence can identify subtle patterns in data, which is particularly useful in medicine. So far, these have been offline processes—doctors perform a medical test, and data from the test is run through a software program after. A real-time process could allow doctors to identify and treat a medical problem much more quickly. One way […]
When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. Smart glasses let users surf the Internet; access maps, calendars, and other apps; and even call up recipes. Users could simultaneously interact with the physical and digital worlds. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in […]
The sport utility vehicle has become an acronym, but the SUV category’s name is questionable. What does sport have to do with shopping in Walmart or waiting in a traffic jam? As for the utility, is my Honda Civic not of use, capable of performing several different functions? And the category itself is splitting up, […]
If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books, big announcements from small fusion companies, and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility, at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The result, a yield […]
In 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted threw electromagnetic theory into a state of confusion. Natural philosophers of the day believed that electricity and magnetism were two distinct phenomena, but Ørsted suggested that the flow of electricity through a wire created a magnetic field around it. The French physicist André-Marie Ampère saw a demonstration […]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA […]
A digital microscope that uses holography and deep-learning technology could detect COVID-19 in a drop of blood. A diagnosis could be made on the spot in a matter of minutes instead of the hours or sometimes days it can take for PCR test results to come back. The system, which uses digital holographic microscopy, could […]