In a dairy barn full of content cows, autonomous robots handle milking, feeding, and cleaning, allowing farmers more flexibility and improving cow welfare. With robots, cows produce more milk and more comfortable lives. Could this be the future of sustainable…

Haptic interfaces have long been limited to simple vibrations, but researchers at Northwestern are advancing touch technology. Their new system simulates complex sensations like pinching and stretching, enhancing VR, medical applications, and even music.

To understand the smallest parts that make up the universe, engineers are designing the world's biggest experiments. These successors to the Large Hadron Collider will be bigger, more expensive, and require some innovations: new seamless superconducting RF…

Nvidia's new Blackwell GPUs dominate MLCommons benchmarks, but AMD's MI325X gives the H200 a run for its money. With MLPerf adding new benchmarks like Llama3.1 405B, the AI race is heating up! Can AMD close the gap with Nvidia? And where does Intel stand…

Register now free-of-charge to explore this white paper Discover the Role of Filter Technologies in Advanced Communication Systems Explore SAW and BAW filters, carrier aggregation, and 5G/6G solutions Learn about carrier aggregation, microcell overlapping…

From 6–12 April boost your tech skills with webinars, keynotes, and more

Get your weekly dose of amazing robot videos from IEEE Spectrum! Discover the latest in robotics, from DHL's human-robot collaboration to Disney's interactive bots. Curious about the future of humanoid robots? Check out THEMIS V2 and more.

After dispatching its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, Estonian startup KrattWorks quickly realized the need for continuous innovation due to rapid advances in electronic warfare. Their latest neural-network-driven optical navigation system…

Feeling overwhelmed by AI news? Stanford's 2025 AI Index cuts through the noise with a 400+ page report on AI's impact. Which we then boiled down to 12 key graphs. You're welcome. #AI

Deep in a Norwegian fjord, TidalX AI's journey began with a "fish run" racetrack, where engineers tracked salmon to gather data and build the AI models that they hoped would revolutionize aquaculture. Emerging from Alphabet's moonshot factory, their AI and…

Students solved engineering problems while celebrating the society’s legacy

For decades, nuclear fusion has been the ultimate energy dream, promising endless, carbon-free power. Now, Proxima Fusion and Type One Energy have made major strides with their stellarator designs. Can these breakthroughs finally make commercial fusion a…

Airbus is leading the charge in the race to create a zero-emission passenger airliner, unveiling bold plans for a superconducting, fuel-cell powered aircraft. With a vision to drastically cut fuel consumption and harness hydrogen power, could this be the…

A new high-voltage breaker can clear grid-scale faults without greenhouse gas

Do AI chatbots truly understand our world, or are they just mimicking that real understanding? In a heated debate, Emily M. Bender, a fierce critic of AI, and Sébastien Bubeck, a proponent of AI's potential, clash over the capabilities of large language models.…

They include training on AI, coding, and game development

One of the key strategies for gaining seniority is expertise. Instead of assuming that expertise is a distant goal, realize that you can become more knowledgeable than anyone as long as you narrow the scope appropriately.

MIT's tiny insect robot and Apple TV's Murderbot sci-fi show are featured in this edition of Video Friday, which showcases the latest robotics advances

Yvonne Y.Y. Clark blazed a trail for Blacks and women in STEM