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Can Cartwheel Robotics Redefine Humanoids as Our New Best Friends?

3 days ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.
The Jackal Spacecraft Could Transform Orbital Security One Day

4 days ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Tereza Pultarova

In the coming years, fleets of orbit-policing spacecraft could zip around the planet, keeping an eye on space tech ventures by China, Russia, and ill-intentioned actors elsewhere in the world. The mobile spacecraft concept presents a major shift away from the old-school way of doing things in space, in which satellites maintain simple orbits and try to avoid one another. Soon, those simple satellites will be looked afterâ€”and possibly hunted byâ€”more agile spacecraft.
Are Zinc Microcapacitors the Future of Compact Energy Solutions?

5 days ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Liam Critchley

As electronics shrink, they require smaller components—including for energy storage. Batteries store a lot of energy but deliver power more slowly, whereas supercapacitors can rapidly charge and discharge but don’t hold much energy. This is the case not only for larger bulk batteries and supercapacitors, but also at much smaller scales, with both micro-batteries and micro-supercapacitors having the same limitations as their bigger counterparts.
Robot Videos: Robotic Horse, Edible Robots, and More

6 days ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

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.
Could This Breakthrough in Bioprinting Replace Certain Surgeries?

6 days ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Elie Dolgin

A new technique for 3D-printing soft materials directly inside the body could allow the creation of complex structures deep within tissue—without making a single incision. The approach, unveiled this week in Science, uses focused ultrasound to sculpt injected “bio-ink” into tissue-like structures, opening the door to minimally invasive applications in cancer therapy, bioelectronics, and regenerative medicine.
Amazon's Vulcan Robots Aim to Tame the Chaos of Warehouse Picking

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a shoebox along with a bunch of other pseudorandom crap.
Is AI's Race for Bigger Models Over? Focus Shifts Towards Human-Like Reasoning in AI Development

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Edd Gent

Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But towards the end of last year, there were rumblings that the benefits of model scaling were hitting a wall. The underwhelming performance of OpenAI’s largest ever model, GPT-4.5, gave further weight to the idea.
Are Amazon's New Vulcan Robots Revolutionizing Warehouse Efficiency?

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
Amazon's Vulcan Robots Aim to Tame the Chaos of Warehouse Picking

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a shoebox along with a bunch of other pseudorandom crap.
Could Outsourcing Memory Be the Key to Supercharging AI Efficiency?

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Michelle Hampson

Modern society is becoming increasing data hungry, especially as the use of AI continues to grow exponentially. As a result, ensuring enough computer memory—and power to sustainable support that memory—has become a major concern. Now, the software company Kove has figured out a way to pool and dynamically outsource computer memory in a way that dramatically boosts computer memory efficiency.