With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment.To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical hives to rapidly perform…

CNN  —  Ananda Lewis, a former MTV VJ who connected a generation of music fans to their favorite celebrities on the music network, has died. She was 52. The news was confirmed by her sister Lakshmi Emory, who posted a tribute on Facebook. No further details were available. CNN has reached out to representatives for…

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.There are signs all around us indicating that the field of robotics is going through a major transformation. Robots are getting significant coverage in the media. A number of big…

The software used to control a robot is normally highly adapted to its specific physical set up. But now researchers have created a single general-purpose robotic control policy that can operate robotic arms, wheeled robots, quadrupeds, and even drones. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to applying machine learning to robotics is the…

Here’s a scene from the not-too-distant future. In a bright, high-tech operating room, a sleek robotic arm stands poised next to the operating table. The autonomous robot won’t operate completely alone, but it will assist in the upcoming procedure, performing key tasks independently with enhanced precision and reduced risk. Its patient is one of more…

Try the following steps if an app installed on your phone has any of these problems: Crashing.  Won’t open.  Won’t respond.  Isn’t working properly. If the app that isn’t working is an Instant App, try these troubleshooting steps instead. After each step, restart your phone to see if it fixed the issue. Step 1: Restart…