Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2022: 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today’s videos! Happy Thanksgiving, for those […]
The Materials Today ‘Rising Star Awards’ recognize researchers in materials science and engineering who have demonstrated themselves to be exceptionally capable researchers with the potential to become future leaders in the field. Open to candidates within 15 years of completing their PhD who have demonstrated themselves to be leading the way through the impact of the research the candidate has conducted and the […]
This image shows scanning electron micrographs and cartoon representations of parapets (cylinders on top and lamellae on bottom), a Swiss-cheese-like patchwork of porous lamellae, and aqueducts (lamellae on top of cylinders). Image: Brookhaven National Laboratory. Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new way to guide the self-assembly […]
Schematic of LIPS devices: fabrication of LIPS on commercial paper; LIPS fabricated on the inner surface of a milk carton as a food monitoring chemical sensor; and LIPS fabricated on outer surface of a paper cup as a temperature sensor. Photos of proof-of-concept LIPS device to detect spoilage of packaged pork. Smart paper packaging with […]
Manufacturing and supply chain expert Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, known as the Strongest Link in Your Supply Chain and president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., sees inventory tightening as supply chains grapple with demand fluctuation, supplier challenges, stagflation, and volatility in the economy. LMA Consulting Group works with manufacturers and distributors on strategy and end-to-end supply chain transformation […]
Learning Objectives CSIA and CESMII help system integrators with Smart Manufacturing. Integrating automation and control devices and systems improves Smart Manufacturing and can improve connections with higher-level systems helping supply chain integration. The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) offers programs for system integrators in the fields of robotics, machine vision and motion control. System […]
While being able to drive the ball 300 yards might get the fans excited, a solid putting game is often what separates a golf champion from the journeymen. A robot built by German researchers is quickly becoming a master of this short game using a clever combination of classical control engineering and machine learning. In […]
All things considered, we humans are kind of big, which is very limiting to how we can comfortably interact with the world. The practical effect of this is that we tend to prioritize things that we can see and touch and otherwise directly experience, even if those things are only a small part of the […]
Businesses that fail to deploy AI ethically will face severe penalties as regulations catch up with the pace of innovations. In the EU, the proposed AI Act features similar enforcement to GDPR but with even heftier fines of €30 million or six percent of annual turnover. Other countries are implementing variations, including China and a […]
Alan Messenger reveals how digital twins heat up the capabilities of energy storage plants Renewable natural gas (RNG), solar, wind and other sustainable resources are at the core of decarbonisation and energy transition strategies. To effectively support their large-scale adoption, it is necessary to ensure dispatchable generation and predictable supply to the grid. Future-oriented energy […]