The Missing Mechanisms of the Agentic Economy
For the past two years, I’ve been working with economist Ilan Strauss at the AI Disclosures Project. We started out by asking what regulators would need to know to ensure the safety of AI products…
Video Friday: Humanoid Learns Tennis Skills Playing Humans
Video 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…
AI Aims for Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation
Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether…
IEEE Partners With Academia to Create Microcredential Programs
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing has created a paradox: Industries are booming yet they face a critical shortage of skilled workers. Demand for data center technicians, fabrication facility workers, and similar…
Beyond Code Review
Not that long ago, we were resigned to the idea that humans would need to inspect every line of AI-generated code. We’d do it personally, code reviews would always be part of a serious software…
Nigerian Firms Embrace Kit-Based EV Assembly for Cost Savings
A growing number of Nigerian companies are turning to kit-based assembly to bring electric vehicles to market in Africa. Lagos-based Saglev Micromobility Nigeria recently partnered with Dongfeng Motor Corp., in Wuhan, China, to assemble 18-seat…
How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life
One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The surgeon was…
Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic
This is the second article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, and look for the next article on April 2 on O’Reilly Radar. The first 90 percent of…
ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80
Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 February 1946, ENIAC—developed in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at…
What Is the PARK Stack?
Background: Stacks with four-letter acronyms According to Wikipedia, the LAMP stack was coined in 1998 by Michael Kunze to describe what had emerged as a popular open source software stack for websites. When the World…