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Humanoids Tackle Monkey Bars: Now What Do We Traverse to Escape Them?
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (222+ words) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Monkey bars are challenging for humans and humanoids it seems. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE…...
Inside Rivian’s Bid to Build Level 4 Robotaxis—and Then Passenger Cars
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (834+ words) The EV maker is betting on custom silicon to beat Tesla to Level-4 self driving In May 2026, Rivan’s CEO, RJ Scaringe, watched R2s being built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois. Video released by Rivian shows the company’s R1 SUV…...
Cleaner Crash Data Could Prove That Human Drivers Are the Risky Ones
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (348+ words) Self-driving tech could prevent 580,000 deaths every year Video captured by Rivian technicians shows, in red, areas scanned by lidar during a test drive. Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that…...
Will Junior Engineers Learn Enough in an AI-First Coding World?
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (1034+ words) Companies rethink how early-career engineers can get vital coding experience Companies are responding to the onslaught of AI code slop by rethinking how they review code. New strategies are emerging: Among other approaches, engineers are scrutinizing plans before AI begins…...
DeepMind's AI Just Mapped 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (576+ words) The September issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! Greg Uyeno is a freelance science journalist based in New York City. DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of…...
Satellites and AI Team Up for Faster Wildfire Detection
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (284+ words) The September issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! Machine learning helps orbital sensors catch blazes earlier OroraTech now has eight wildfire sensors in orbit and another eight in various stages of commissioning. They can spot fires that are smaller than…...
Humanoid Robots Learn to Haul Couches and Keep Payloads Steady
1+ week, 2+ day ago (288+ words) The September issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! Your selection of awesome videos this week shows robots that grip like koalas, triage, run restaurants, harvest grapes, and more Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Please help me move. Video…...
Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles
1+ week, 1+ day ago (414+ words) The September issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! Remote-control robot bugs could deliver lifesaving aid to disaster victims Charles Q. Choi is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum. Australian giant burrowing cockroaches are transformed into cybernetic “Paraborgs,” which can be remote…...
Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
1+ week, 5+ day ago (816+ words) The September issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! These companies are paying to use home servers Dina Genkina is the computing and hardware editor at IEEE Spectrum Computer hobbyists already have small server racks in their basements and garages—now…...
How China’s Yttrium Curbs Threaten Data Centers
2+ week, 4+ day ago (326+ words) Vital supply chains rest on a couple of really rare rare earths Erbium is a critical ingredient in the amplifiers that boost optical signals for long distance communication. There are 17 rare earth elements. While almost all of them have vital…...