October 16, 2024

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots

6 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. A new partnership with Toyota Research should bring new capabilities to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Photo Collage: Randi Klett/IEEE Spectrum Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose robot may make this partnership sound like

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How IEEE Ensures Quality In Engineering Education

2 min read Regina Samson is the accreditation program manager for IEEE Educational Activities. Getty Images For IEEE, the accreditation of engineering programs is important. Accreditation is vital to the future of the profession, ensuring that the graduates are prepared to practice and establishing a link to a sustainable future with a talented pool of engineering and technology professionals. IEEE’s involvement in the accreditation process ensures that students who graduate from approved programs have demonstrated

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AI

A Novel Approach to Detect Coordinated Attacks Using Clustering

Unveiling hidden patterns: grouping malicious behavior Trupti Bavalatti · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 9 hours ago — Clustering is a powerful technique within unsupervised machine learning that groups a given data based on their inherent similarities. Unlike supervised learning methods, such as classification, which rely on pre-labeled data to guide the learning process, clustering operates on unlabeled data. This means there are no predefined categories or labels and

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AI

Exploring DRESS Kit V2

Exploring new features and notable changes in the latest version of the DRESS Kit Waihong Chung · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 9 hours ago — Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash Overview Since the original DRESS Kit was first released in 2021, it has been successfully implemented in a handful of biomedical research projects. If you have never heard of the DRESS Kit, then you may be interested

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Robotics

Formant debuts partnership with Slalom at RoboBusiness 2024 – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Formant aims to offer a single system with apps and workflows built into a single data and UI platform. | Source: Formant Slalom, a global business and technology consulting company, and Formant, a provider of cloud robotics management software, today announced a strategic partnership. The companies aim to help enterprise companies more easily adopt automation and robotics technologies to supercharge their businesses.  Both companies are showcasing the potential of their combined

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Hardware

ASUS ROG Launches Monstrous Thor III PSUs Up To 1600W With Magnetic OLED Display

ASUS has just announced its new Thor III family of PSUs targeting gamers with ultra-powerful systems. There will be three models in this family at launch, which consists of 1000-watt and 1200-watt 80 PLUS Platinum certified units and a third model offering a massive 1600-watts and an 80 PLUS Titanium rating. The 1600-watt unit also features the Cybernetics Lambda A+ noise certification, so not only will it be efficient, it will run quietly as well. 

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Hardware

Windows 11 24H2 Update Is Causing BSOD Crashes For PCs With These SSDs

Did you recently get served the big update to Windows 11 24H2? The upgrade, which would have been called a Service Pack once upon a time, comes along with the new Copilot AI features as well as the usual stack of OS add-ons. Unfortunately for some, it also brought along a less-welcome partner: blue screens of death. The specific issues that we’re writing about today manifest in the form of “Critical Process Has Died” and

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AR/VR

TON Station: A Gateway to Play-to-Earn and the $SOON Token Launch

TON Station is disrupting the Web3 gaming space with its gameplay and crypto rewards. Built on the TON blockchain, TON Station allows players to earn tokens by completing quests, participating in game launches and playing fun mini-games like Jump’n’Pump. With the $SOON token launch imminent, players can get in now and start earning. In this article, we’ll look at how TON Station works and why the upcoming $SOON token launch is so hyped. What is

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Hardware

Micron First To Market With New JEDEC DDR5 CUDIMMs For Blazing Memory Speeds

If you read that headline and are thinking that 6400 MT/s isn’t really fast for DDR5, then you’ve fallen into the same trap we did. The key detail is that the new modules, which feature a clock driver directly on the memory module itself, don’t require overclocking to hit that speed. DDR5-6400 is a new JEDEC speed standard, enabled by the release of these new clock-driver-equipped CUDIMMs. Further, Micron—specifically its consumer brand Crucial—is the first

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Hardware

Motorola’s Mobile AI Concept Aims To Make Your Phone A Truly Smart Assistant

Motorola is upping the ante in the world of AI with its moto.ai concept, which is designed to transform a person’s smartphone into a truly smart assistant. The company made the announcement at this year’s Lenovo Tech World ‘24 event, claiming it would be taking AI on a smartphone “to a new level”. Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword among tech companies for a while now. As the technology continues to progress, those same companies

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