Video Friday: May the Fourth be With You

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo 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.Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11…

Space Tech Is Soaring into New Frontiers. Here's Your Roadmap.

The space technology industry is defying gravity both literally and figuratively — driving innovation that pushes into new frontiers.Keysight’s new in-depth survey of the latest trends in this fast-paced industry can help you identify:Top satellite applications driving market growthTop enabling technologies, technology trends, and novel solutionsWhat space technology leaders consider…

Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The ARPANET and the way it handled communications was…

Timber! The World’s First Wooden Transistor

Transistors inside modern computer chips are several nanometers across, and switch on and off at hundreds of gigahertz. Organic electrochemical transistors, made for biodegradable applications, are milimeters in size and switch at kilohertz rates. The world’s first wooden transistor, made by a collaboration of researchers through the Wallenberg Wood Science…