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The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Antonio Luque, Ravinder Dahiya, and Joseph Wei. IEEE Senior Member Antonio LuqueDirector and vice president, Member and Geographic Activities

Are you finally ready to hang a computer screen on your face?Fifteen years ago, that would have seemed like a silly question. Then came the much-hyped and much-derided Google Glass in 2012, and frankly, it still seemed a silly question.Now, though, it’s a choice consumers are beginning to make. Tiny displays, shrinking processors, advanced battery designs, and wireless communications are coming together in a new generation of smart glasses that display information that’s actually useful right in front of you. But the big question remains: Just why would you want to do that?Some tech companies are betting that today’s smart glasses wil

This post originally appeared on Recode China AI.For more than a decade, Nvidia’s chips have been the beating heart of China’s AI ecosystem. Its GPUs powered search engines, video apps, smartphones, electric vehicles, and the current wave of generative AI models. Even as Washington tightened export rules for advanced AI chips, Chinese companies kept settling for and buying “China-only” Nvidia chips stripped of their most advanced features—H800, A800, and H20.But by 2025, patience in Beijing had seemingly snapped. State

How much pain are you in on a scale from one to 10? This simple method is still the way pain is measured in doctors’ offices, clinics, and hospitals—but how do I know if my five out of 10 is the same as yours? A new, early-stage platform aims to more objectively measure and share our individual perception of pain. It measures brain activity in two people in order to understand how their experiences compare and recreate one person’s pain for the other. The platform was developed as a partnership between the large Tokyo-based telecommunications company

Around ten years ago, fantastical media coverage of 3D printing dramatically increased expectations for the technology. A particular darling of that coverage was the use of 3D-printing for prosthetic limbs: For example, in 2015, The New York Times celebrated the US $15 to $20 3D-printed prosthetic hands facilitated by the nonprofit E-nable, which paired hobbyist 3D printer owners with children with limb differences. The magic felt undeniable: disabled children could get cheap, freely accessible mechanical hands made by

Giving Tuesday, being held on 2 December this year, is a day globally dedicated to generosity and empowering individuals and organizations to transform people’s lives and communities. For this year’s event, IEEE and the IEEE Foundation invite members to invest in the organization’s charitable programs. The programs aim to inspire the next generation of engineers, provide sustainable energy to those in need, assist in emer

A 1980s-era semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas, is getting a makeover. The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), as it’s called now, is tooling up to become the only advanced packaging plant in the world that is dedicated to 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI)—the stacking of chips made of multiple materials, both silicon and non-silicon. The fab is the infrastructure behind DARPA’s Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program. “NGMM is focused on a revolution in microelectronics through 3D heterogeneous integration,” said

It sounds like a NASA pipe dream: a new spacecraft thruster that’s up to 40 percent more power-efficient than today’s. Even better, its fuel costs less than a thousandth as much and weighs an eighth of the mass. A startup called Orbital Arc claims it can make such a thruster.With this design, “we can go from a thruster that’s about a few inches across and several kilograms to a thruster on a chip that’s about an inch across and has the same thrust output, but weighs about an eighth as much,” the company’s founder, Jonathan Huffman, says.According to Orbital Arc, the hardware

For anyone working in today’s rapidly evolving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, visibility, authenticity, and connection are no longer optional; they are essential. But there is a lack of resources for STEM professionals, especially women, looking to express themselves fully, build meaningful networks, and lead with confidence.To help, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) recently launched a podcast series in which experts from around the world inspire and inform to ignite change.The series aims to amplify the diverse experiences of women from STEM fields. Through candid conversations and expert insights, the podc

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, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! Unlike existing hybrid designs, Duawlfin eliminates the need for additional actuators or propeller-driven ground propulsion by levera