Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589701
Willie D. Jones
The latest buzz in biomimetic robots is a robotic bee like this one. The BionicBee, produced by the automation-technology company Festo, based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, is an order of magnitude bigger than a real bee. For a sense of a BionicBee's size, imagine a bluejay or an oversized hummingbird, albeit one whose wings flap forward and back (closer to the movements of a real bee) rather than up and down. The company says its swarm technology will enable the drone to operate autonomously while it coordinates its flight path with other “bees,” using ultrawideband beacons whose signals let it keep track of its position in space and avoid midair collisions.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589684
John Boyd
As Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and Japan's upcoming advanced foundry Rapidus each make their separate preparations to cram more and more transistors into every square millimeter of silicon, one thing they all have in common is that the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology underpinning their efforts is extremely complex, extremely expensive, and extremely costly to operate. A prime reason is that the source of this system's 13.5-nanometer light is the precise and costly process of blasting flying droplets of molten tin with the most powerful commercial lasers on the planet.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589678
David Schneider
Birding is booming. You may realize your local nature spots are especially busy during seasonal migrations, when birds move between their summer and winter grounds. Species that you had been noticing disappear may have been replaced by ones that hadn't been there before. Or you may have seen migrating birds on the wing—say, a flock of geese flying in their famous V-formation. Even if you're not a dedicated birder, you've probably made such observations throughout your life. So it might come as a surprise to learn that you've been missing out on most of this action, which takes place at night. But, as I discovered, with some simple electronics and the right software, you can identify nocturnal migrators with ease!
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589679
Edd Gent
When it comes to motorsports, the need for speed isn't only on the racetrack. Engineers who support race teams also need to work at a breakneck pace to fix problems, and that's something Aakhilesh Singhania relishes.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589682
Mark Liu;H.-S. Philip Wong
In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a ground-breaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human-level intelligence. In the 10 years that followed, we began to use artificial intelligence for many practical tasks, such as facial recognition, language translation, and recommending movies and merchandise.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589685
Gwendolyn Rak
NEARLY EVERY DAY since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University Chicago, has played the piano. Some days she of Illinois plays well and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys. Over the years, she noticed a pattern: How well she plays depends on her mood. A bad mood or lack of sleep almost always leads to sluggish, mistake-prone music.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589686
Rahul Rao
Today's cryptographic protocols rely on mathematical techniques like finding the prime factors of very large numbers. But large enough quantum computers would have a powerful tool called Shor's algorithm, which can quickly factor colossal integers.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589681
Emily Waltz;Luigi Avantaggiato
INSIDE a shipping container in an industrial area of Venice, the Italian startup 9-Tech is taking a crack at a looming global problem: how to responsibly recycle the 54 million to 160 million tonnes of solar modules that are expected to reach the end of their productive lives by 2050. Recovering the materials won't be easy. Solar panels are built to withstand any environment on Earth for 20 to 30 years, and even after sitting in the sun for three decades, the hardware is difficult to dismantle. In fact, most recycling facilities trash the silicon, silver, and copper—the most valuable but least accessible materials in old solar panels—and recover only the aluminum frames and glass panes.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589680
Harry Goldstein
Fifty years ago, DRAM inventor and IEEE Medal of Honor recipient Robert Dennard created what essentially became the semiconductor industry's path to perpetually increasing transistor density and chip performance. That path became known as Dennard scaling, and it helped codify Gordon Moore's postulate about device dimensions shrinking by half every 18 to 24 months. For decades it compelled engineers to push the physical limits of semiconductor devices.
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