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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that can traverse challenging terrains while using far less energy than an aerial robot of comparable size. But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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Eight years ago, Samueli, then a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who had been pushing the state of the art of digital broadband communications for more than a decade, joined with his Ph.D. The teacher predicted that Samueli would be a successful electrical engineer someday. Samueli jumped at the chance.

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Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab

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Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods. This work aims to bring ownership back to artists in the age of generative AI.

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This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality

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In 1985, he had established a multidisciplinary research program at the University of California, Los Angeles, to develop chips for digital broadband. For these advances, along with contributions to expanding science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, Samueli is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor.

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Willie Hobbs Moore: STEM Trailblazer

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At a time in American history when even the most intelligent Black women were expected to become, at most, teachers or nurses, Willie Hobbs Moore broke with societal expectations to become a noted physicist and engineer. The biography, published by IEEE-USA , is the seventh in the organizations Famous Women Engineers in History series.

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Video Friday: Robots for Extreme Environments

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And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [ University of Bath ] Whenever I see a soft robot, I have to ask, okay, but how soft is it really? Nature Communications ] via [ Collaborative Robotics Laboratory, University of Coimbra ] Thanks, Pedro! University of Pennsylvania ]

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Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Jim Boddie Remembered

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He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1971 from Auburn University , in Alabama. Therefore Texas Instruments and similar companies sold universal digital building blocks such as multipliers and register files. In 1998 Jim left AT&T and helped found StarCore, a DSP design center in Atlanta.