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  • AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

    AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed.

    IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read
  • Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants

    DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “noncoding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are critical to regulating…

    IEEE Spectrum AI4 min read
  • This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

    You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there.A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and which way it bends.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics6 min read
  • Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

    Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read
  • Video Friday: Digit Redecorates

    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.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

    This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball

    On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel, and wet clay, his imagination turned the quarry into the…

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics6 min read
  • AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

    A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely needed them.

    IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read
  • Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

    If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process.

    IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read
  • Video Friday: Meet Microduck

    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.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box

    Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary.

    IEEE Spectrum AI4 min read
  • AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

    This article is brought to you by Ollobot.From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics8 min read
  • Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The idea of letting a machine do the driving for you may put a lot of people off autonomous vehicles.

    IEEE Spectrum AI5 min read
  • What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer

    The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place.

    IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read
  • This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites

    Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch shows together.Ingole never even saw a computer growing up.

    IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read
  • Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots?

    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.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Drones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics4 min read

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