What caught your eye? (Displays, R&D tax, Robot hands, AI Fight Club)

This week we’re talking about rugged displays, the contrast between how the US and UK tax R&D expenses, a robotic hand with a sense of touch, and Lockheed Martin’s AI Fight Club…

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…

What caught your eye? (Displays, R&D tax, Robot hands, AI Fight Club)Caroline Hayes, editor
The importance and versatility of displays is matched by market activity to provide multiple choices.

David Manners, components editor
The US "Big Beautiful Act"What caught my eye this week was the contrast between how the US and UK are proposing to tax R&D expenses.


Steve Bush, technology editor
QueenMary touch sensitive robot handA robot hand has been given a sense of touch using 17 tiny cameras embedded inside its structure, plus a bank of novel algorithms. Further algorithms exploit this touch sense to subtly manipulate objects, even two at a time, by moving the hand’s joints.

Alun Williams, web editor
Lockheed Martin - warfighter intelligenceAn AI Fight Club. Lockheed Martin is developing an environment that tests the ability of AI to support warfighters. It simulates how rival AI systems perform in air, land, sea, and space domains. Basically, it aims to be a proving ground for the best artificial intelligence models for military support.

But what caught your eye in the world of electronics this week? Leave a comment below.


Alun Williams

Web Editor of Electronics Weekly, he is the author of the Gadget Master, Eyes on Android and Electro-ramblings blogs and also covers space technology news. He has been working in tech journalism for worryingly close to thirty years. In a previous existence, he was a software programmer.

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