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Category: Industrial
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Poetry for Engineers: Ode to Very Small Devices
As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh,
it’s the secret lives of small hidden machines,
their junctures, and networks that inspire me:
Mystic hidden functionaries that make
our made world live, brave little servo motors,
whose couplers, whose…Continue Reading
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This new building material pulls carbon out of the air
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a new building material that removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. The advance, reported in the high-impact journal Matter, describes a material called…
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This tiny power module could change how the world uses energy
Global demand for electricity is rising fast. Energy-hungry data centers that support artificial intelligence, along with expanding manufacturing, are putting unprecedented pressure on power systems worldwide. Meeting that demand will require…
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Robot Videos: Bipedal Robot, Social Bots, and 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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Robot Videos: Atlas Humanoid, CES 2026 Bots , and 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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Videos: Robot Farming, Humanoid Plays Tennis, and 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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This 100-year-old teaching method is beating modern preschools
The first nationwide randomized study of children enrolled in public Montessori preschools found that students showed stronger learning outcomes by the time they reached kindergarten. Compared with children who attended non-Montessori programs,…
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Robots Take Center Stage in DARPA Triage Challenge
Last September, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unleashed teams of robots on simulated mass-casualty scenarios, including an airplane crash and a night ambush. The robots’ job was to find victims and estimate the severity…
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Critical minerals are hiding in plain sight in U.S. Mines
The United States may already be producing most of the critical minerals it needs, but much of that material is currently going unused. A new statistical study led by Elizabeth Holley and her research team shows that valuable minerals could be…
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