Eliza Strickland

4 min read Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. Video synthesized by Helm.ai can be adjusted to train self-driving cars on different driving conditions. Self-driving cars were supposed to be in our garages by now, according to the optimistic predictions of just a few years ago. But we may be nearing a few tipping points, with robotaxi adoption going up and consumers getting accustomed to more and

4 min read Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. DeepMind’s new AI models were mostly trained with two robotic arms, but can also control humanoids and other hardware platforms. Google DeepMind Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care of web-based busywork

4 min read Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. Chloë Angus, who’s paralyzed from the waist down, shows off her moves in the XoMotion exoskeleton. Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a construction site catastrophe. But Chloë Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot