Tensor operations are a form of advanced mathematics that support many modern technologies, especially artificial intelligence. These operations go far beyond the simple calculations most people encounter. A helpful way to picture them is to…
Category: Engineering
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Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Drones, Humanoid Robots, More
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.
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The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Mac Clones Era
There’s a class of consumer that wants something they know they cannot have. For some of those people, a Macintosh computer not made by Apple has long been a desired goal.
For most of the Mac’s history, you could only really get one from…
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Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Researchers at Rice University have found that certain atom-thin semiconductors, known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), can physically shift their atomic lattice when exposed to light. This newly observed response offers a controllable…
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Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight
Claire chatted to Heather Knight from Oregon State University about applying methods from the performing arts to robotics.
Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. Her…
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Scientists uncover hidden atomic process that supercharges propylene production
Many familiar items, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, rely on a process that converts propane into propylene. In 2021, a study in Science showed that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to merge several steps of this…
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Robots on the Runway – Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Fashion and engineering meet to reimagine how humans and robots coexist
11/13/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Robots took to the runway — strutting, spinning and dancing — in a fashion show that brought art and engineering…
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What Do Consumers Really Want in Smart Glasses?
Are you finally ready to hang a computer screen on your face?
Fifteen years ago, that would have seemed like a silly question. Then came the much-hyped and much-derided Google Glass in 2012, and frankly, it still seemed a silly question.
Now,…
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Wild new “gyromorph” materials could make computers insanely fast
Researchers are exploring a new generation of computers that operate using light, or photons, instead of electrical currents. Systems that rely on light to store and process information could one day run far more efficiently and complete…
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Team Chiron Advances to Final Phase of DARPA Triage Challenge
11/11/2025 Mallory Lindahl
The quadruped robots explore grass terrain at night.
Team Chiron, a group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the third and final…
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