The first electric boat has officially made the crossing from Europe to Africa, crewed by a Swedish team - marking the first-ever intercontinental journey made by an electric vessel.

The growth in humanoid robots is being heralded for the advantages it will bring to sectors suffering from labour shortages where humans don’t want to perform repetitive, monotonous tasks - such as logistics and manufacturing.

Jobs typically held by women, particularly in high-income countries, faced a greater risk of disruption from artificial intelligence than those predominantly performed by men, according to a report published by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO).

At the 2025 EDS Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Paige West, Managing Editor of Procurement Pro, caught up with Cristian Stanciu, Vice President of Sales at Master Electronics, to discuss the company’s evolving strategy, digital transformation, and outlook for the year ahead.

A new amphibious robotic dog, designed to manoeuvre seamlessly across both land and water, has been unveiled by a team of researchers aiming to push the boundaries of terrain versatility in robotics.

In a pioneering approach to counter age-related cognitive decline, researchers from Japan and the UK have developed a virtual reality (VR) game that trains the brain using the power of smell.

At Computex 2025, MediaTek confirmed it is working closely with NVIDIA to develop custom AI silicon designed to meet the demands of hyperscale Cloud infrastructure. 

Imagination Technologies recently released its E-Series of GPUs, notably with Edge AI capabilities. Kristof Beets, VP of Product Management at the company took Electronic Specifier through the solution, discussing integrating Edge AI, the importance of flexibility, and how GPUs are best-placed to run AI workloads.

At the Developers conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday 21st May 2025, Google unveiled a notable update to its search engine: AI Mode, a new tab that is currently available in the US.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have uncovered a new class of materials, intercrystals, with unqiue electronic properties that have the potential to power future technologies.

Small autonomous underwater vehicles - the ‘drones of the sea’ - could be valuable for studying the depths of the ocean and monitoring its changing conditions. But such nautical mini bots can be overpowered by turbulent currents, which is why Caltech scientists have sought to engineer a solution to this problem.

Diamond's properties include high thermal conductivity, exceptional carrier mobility, high voltage breakdown, among others, which render transistors that have the capability of operating at high temperatures, voltages, among others. Simultaneously, it also offers higher dissipation of heat and higher energy efficiency.

At COMPUTEX 2025 in Taipei, Jens Hinrichsen, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Analog and Automotive Embedded Systems at NXP Semiconductors, delivered a keynote that positioned AI at the Edge – not in the Cloud – as the foundation for an autonomous future.

What does an eco-friendly aquatic robot look like? In the case of scientists at EPFL, in Switzerland, the robot they have designed is made up of fish food.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote speech in Taipei ahead of COMPUTEX 2025, outlining the company’s expanding vision for AI infrastructure, accelerated computing, and the platforms that will drive the next generation of intelligent systems.

Arm has announced a significant shift in how it communicates its compute platforms, unveiling a unified naming architecture aimed at aligning its product families with the accelerating demands of AI across multiple markets.

Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, will be the first to achieve native integration with a new BCI Human Interface Device (BCI HID) profile announced by Apple.

Founded as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, PQShield emerged from cutting-edge academic research into cryptography.

A small piece of outer space recreated in a basement in Glasgow could help ensure that a key enabling technology for future space missions won’t lead to deadly ‘rifle bullets’ of space junk circling the Earth.

Apple’s upcoming iOS 19 update, which is expected to roll out in the second half of 2025, indicates a change in how iPhones manage power.