갤럭시A57·A37 출격…삼성, 플래그십·보급형 투트랙 공략

삼성전자가 '갤럭시A57'과 '갤럭시A37'으로 글로벌 보급형 스마트폰 시장 공략에 나선다. 삼성전자는 오는 10일 갤럭시A57 5G와 A37 5G를 세계 시장에 순차 출시한다. 출시 예정국가는 미국, 사우디아라비아, 호주, 브라질, 동남아 지역 등이다. 신제품은 인공

통신·미디어·게임 갤럭시A57·A37 출격…삼성, 플래그십·보급형 투트랙 공략

ENIAC’s Architects Wove Stories Through Computing

This year marks the 80th anniversary of ENIAC, the first general-purpose digital computer. The computer was built during World War II to speed up ballistics calculations, but its contributions to computing extend well beyond military applications. Two of ENIAC’s key architects—John W. Mauchly, its co-inventor, and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty, one of the six original programmers—married a few years after its completion and raised seven children together. Mauchly and McNulty’s grandchild Naomi Most delivered a talk as part of a celebration in honor of ENIAC’s anniversary on 15 February, which was held online and in-person at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pa. The foll..

Computing

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight

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.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today’s videos! Getting Digit to dance takes more than putting on some fancy shoes—our AI Team can teach Digit new whole-body control capabilities overnight. Using raw motion data from mocap, animation, and teleop methods, Digit gets new skills through sim-to-real reinforcement training.[ Agility ]We’ve c..

Robotics

Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here

In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multiyear, multimillion-dollar competition for disaster robotics resulted in Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, some absolutely incredible moments from one of the very first generations of useful humanoid robots, and a blooper video that will live on forever.Gill Pratt, the architect of the competition, had a very clear understanding of what the DRC was going to do for robotics. “The reason [for the DARPA Robotics Challenge] is actually to push the field forward and make this capability a reality,” Pratt told IEEE Spectrum in 2012. At the time, he pointed out that before the DARPA Grand C..

Robotics

Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor

Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. They hope the receiver might be part of a wireless communications system for robotics used to decommission reactors.Yasuto Narukiyo, a graduate student at the Institute of Science Tokyo, presented the wireless receiver at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco in February. The receiver endured a total radiation dose of 500 kilograys, orders of magnitude higher than the doses typically tolerated by electronics in outer space.After the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, engineers began using robots to help characterize and clean up the site..

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Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems

Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They’ve built machine learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that walk like dogs or fly like insects, and taught robots to adapt, however clumsily, to the world around them.Now they are skipping imitation altogether.Instead of taking inspiration from biology, they are building robots out of it: fashioning tiny, free-swimming assemblages of living cells that organize into self-directed systems, complete with neurons that wire themselves into functional circuits.The result, reported last month in Advanced Science, is what the researchers call a “neurobot.”These living machines could help scientists better understand h..

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