Famous Circuits Blog: June 2015

IEEE Spectrum

After a 9-Year Voyage, New Horizons Will Have Minutes to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere
Smart Cars Crave Max Headroom
How Would You Like Your Robo-Car? Barista-bot? Burrito-mobile? Rolling Movie Theater?
SpaceX Rocket Explosion Is Latest in Space Station Resupply Failures
Formula E Ends First Season Wheel-to-Wheel
Armored Exoskeletons Help Roachbots Go Anywhere, Handle Anything

After a 9-Year Voyage, New Horizons Will Have Minutes to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 08:00 AM PDT

The brief encounter will generate so much data it'll take more than a year to send it all back

Smart Cars Crave Max Headroom

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 07:00 AM PDT

And to manage that headroom they'll need more powerful computers—and an operating system

How Would You Like Your Robo-Car? Barista-bot? Burrito-mobile? Rolling Movie Theater?

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 01:00 PM PDT

Self-driving cars will become places of their own, not just means of transport

SpaceX Rocket Explosion Is Latest in Space Station Resupply Failures

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 11:18 AM PDT

Loss of a SpaceX resupply mission comes at an awkward time for NASA's private spaceflight contractors

Formula E Ends First Season Wheel-to-Wheel

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 09:57 AM PDT

Energy efficiency and battery management dominate the series

Armored Exoskeletons Help Roachbots Go Anywhere, Handle Anything

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 09:10 AM PDT

UC Berkeley's robotic roaches roll through clutter thanks to fancy new shells

IEEE Spectrum

The Miraculous 1880s

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 08:00 AM PDT

Boosters of Silicon Valley days are off base: The real tech decade happened rather earlier

IEEE Spectrum

Google and Delphi Robocars Meet on the Road
The Computer Chip That Never Forgets
Graphene Magnetic Sensor Hundred Times More Sensitive Than Silicon
Video Friday: iCub Is Evolving, Mind-Controlled Robot, and ROS for Drones

Google and Delphi Robocars Meet on the Road

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:00 PM PDT

Here is what happens when rival self-driving cars want to move into the same lane.

The Computer Chip That Never Forgets

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:00 PM PDT

Melding spin-based logic and memory could lead to low-power, instant-on electronics

Graphene Magnetic Sensor Hundred Times More Sensitive Than Silicon

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:00 PM PDT

Graphene's umatched charge carrier mobility improves sensitivity and power consumption for Hall effect sensor

Video Friday: iCub Is Evolving, Mind-Controlled Robot, and ROS for Drones

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 09:52 AM PDT

The week's best robot videos

Trossen Robotics Blog

New RobotGeek Geekduino Experimenter’s Kits

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 08:24 AM PDT

We’ve designed several new RobotGeek kits to get you started in the world of physical computing. Each kit comes with our Geekduino and sensor shield for easy programming and wiring, as well as a RobotGeek Workbench to mount all of your electronics to.

At the core of the RobotGeek Arduino kits is the workbench to mount your projects. All RobotGeek products are compatible with the bench and each include mounting hardware giving you the opportunity to continue to expand your portable arduino workstation!