Category: Industrial

  • Workplace gossip can benefit employees and employers

    Workplace gossip can benefit employees and employers

    New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York shows how some workplace gossip could reduce the likelihood of employee turnover and, as a result, potentially boost an organization’s effectiveness. “Organizations should be aware of the impact of positive gossip because turnover can be a very important factor in dictating an organization’s success,” said…

  • Video Friday: Floppybot – IEEE Spectrum

    Video Friday: Floppybot – IEEE Spectrum

    Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 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 us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. Cybathlon…

  • Study on battery recycling shows China is in first place

    Study on battery recycling shows China is in first place

    With the increase in the production of batteries for electric vehicles, demand is also rising for the necessary raw materials. In view of risks to the supply chain, environmental problems and precarious working conditions which are all associated with the mining and transportation of these materials, the recycling of battery materials has become an important…

  • Self-Driven “Vine” Seeks Light and Heat

    Self-Driven “Vine” Seeks Light and Heat

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Thanks to eons of evolution, vines have the ability to seek out light sources, growing in the direction that will optimize their chances of absorbing sunlight and thriving. Now, researchers have succeeded in creating a vine-inspired crawling bot that…

  • Ex-entrepreneurs can thrive in the right employee roles

    Ex-entrepreneurs can thrive in the right employee roles

    Once an entrepreneur always an entrepreneur? Not necessarily, says a new study by researchers at the University of Central Florida and Purdue University. Former entrepreneurs can transition from being their own boss into successful employees within an organization, especially in roles that harness their entrepreneurial spirit, according to a recent study published in Personnel Psychology.…

  • Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances

    Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances

    Every minute counts when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. New research suggests that drones equipped with equipment to automatically restart someone’s heart could help get life-saving care to people much faster. If your heart stops beating outside of a hospital, your chance of survival is typically less than 10 percent. One thing that can boost…

  • Powerful financial giants could play vital role in preventing the next pandemic

    Powerful financial giants could play vital role in preventing the next pandemic

    Many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, especially zoonotic diseases such as ebola or new coronaviruses, emerge as the result of intensified human activities such as deforestation, expansion of agricultural land, and increased hunting and trading of wildlife. In a new study, published in the scientific journal Lancet Planetary Health, researchers identified public and private companies…

  • ANYmal’s Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully

    ANYmal’s Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully

    The tricked out version of the ANYmal quadruped, as customized by Zürich-based Swiss-Mile, just keeps getting better and better. Starting with a commercial quadruped, adding powered wheels made the robot fast and efficient, while still allowing it to handle curbs and stairs. A few years ago, the robot learned how to stand up, which is…

  • Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

    Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

    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 us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot…

  • Remote collaborations deliver fewer scientific breakthroughs

    Remote collaborations deliver fewer scientific breakthroughs

    Remote teams are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries compared to those who work onsite, according to research published today, which was led by the universities of Oxford and Pittsburgh into the rise of remote collaborations among scientists and inventors across the world. In their study published in Nature, the researchers’ key finding was that,…