Fixing the Future Podcast
1) Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine
Gabriel Steinberg, co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community and the startup Safe Pro AI talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland about using machine learning to speed up demining op...Show More
2) Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?
Founder and CEO of Exeger, Giovanni Philly, talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices e...Show More
3) The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech
The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, similar to the United States' DARPA. ARIA's first foray is into creating new enabling techn...Show More
4) Zipline's Droid Brings U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Closer
Zipline originally established itself delivering medical supplies in rural Africa. Now, Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek talks with senior editor Stephen Cass about recent milestones in bringi...Show More
5) Heat Pumps Go North
Governments in America and Europe are pushing the deployment of heat pumps to reduce the energy demands of home heating and cooling. Spectrum's power and energy editor Emily Waltz talks with Stephen C...Show More
6) The Cutting Edge of Integrated Circuits: Exploding Chips, How Meta's Stacking It Up For AR, and More
IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert, Samuel K. Moore, talks with Stephen Cass about his visit to one of the key conferences in emerging integrated circuit technology, ISSCC. We talk about Meta's new ...Show More
7) Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage
In this March roundup, IEEE Spectrum's editor-in-chief Harry Goldstein and senior editor Stephen Cass talk about some of the highlights of Spectrum's recent coverage, including a plea for programmers ...Show More
8) The Autonomous Research System Lets Robots Do Your Lab Work
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently released the open-source ARES_OS, a key software component of their Autonomous Research System. ARES_OS allows relatively simple robots to perform exp...Show More
9) Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a major expansion driven by the seemingly insatiable demands of AI, the addition of more intelligence in transportation, and national security concerns, a...Show More
10) The Brain Implant That Sidesteps The Competition
We've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those implants have entered general clinical use. Biomedical devic...Show More