Every innovation begins as an idea. Through creativity, persistence, and engineering, those ideas take flight and become the technologies that shape our world. Here's to the engineers who transform imagination into reality every day.

Congratulations to the following Outstanding Associate Editors for their exceptional contributions to IEEE Access throughout 2025! For the full list of Outstanding Associate Editors: ieeeaccess.ieee.org/.../outstand...

What if the best way to prevent robot traffic jams is a little randomness? Researchers found that robot swarms moving along perfectly can create bottlenecks. Adding small deviations helps reduce congestion and keeps the group moving more efficiently: bit.ly/4gwdT6X

Controlling systems with delays and uncertainty is a challenging engineering problem. This featured IEEE Access article proposes a smarter approach to designing controllers that remain stable and effectively handle disturbances: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

In this featured IEEE Access article, a new study compares manifold learning methods across five heterogeneous IIoT cybersecurity datasets, evaluating their effectiveness for intrusion detection, anomaly separation, and traffic analysis: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

A decade of "Deep Learning in Remote Sensing" has reshaped how we understand our planet. This massive #IEEEAccess review analyzes 448 papers to reveal how geospatial #AI evolved and where it’s going next: 🔗 @ieeeaccess.bsky.social 🔗 https://loom.ly/8WFxgfc

Hyundai’s plan to deploy 25,000+ Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots across U.S. plants marks a major milestone for industrial robotics. What stands out isn’t just the scale, it’s the shift from robotics demos to real factory deployment: bit.ly/4dlsK2i

Hyundai to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots across US plants in major push

Hyundai plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots from Boston Dynamics and expand US production capacity to 30,000 by 2028.

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China’s latest rare earth discovery could have major implications for the future of EVs, clean energy, and defense technologies. The discovery could even make extraction cheaper, easier, and less environmentally harmful: bit.ly/4dxKJBu

Rare earth deposits in China's frozen north to reshape global supply

Scientists in China have identified a new type of rare earth deposit that could make mining cheaper, easier, and more efficient.

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This featured IEEE Access article highlights a framework that uses large language models and students’ open-ended responses to automatically generate analytical multiple-choice questions designed to assess higher-order reasoning: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

Engineering progress is built on analysis, testing, iteration, and learning from failure. Every breakthrough in infrastructure, electronics, aerospace, and computing begins with understanding limits and designing beyond them.

As AI becomes more integrated into daily life, designing systems with ethics, accessibility, and human interaction in mind is more important than ever: bit.ly/4djeqY4

Gloria Washington on building AI that actually understands people

IEEE and Howard University's Gloria Washington explains why AI needs empathy and why removing humans from the loop risks real-world harm.

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Adaptive learning meets accessibility. 📝 Presenting a rigorously validated #AI framework that identifies learning styles dynamically and delivers personalized, multi‑modal content to support diverse learners. @ieeeaccess.bsky.social 🔗 https://loom.ly/Rx2phXI

👂 New study simulates hearing‑loss degradations, integrates neural learning and binaural cues, and delivers validated improvements in predicting how hearing‑impaired listeners understand speech. @ieeeaccess.bsky.social 🔗 https://loom.ly/43ZHo-Q #TechSky #AI

This featured IEEE Access article highlights advances in magnetic nanoparticles. The study introduces standardized magnetic figures of merit to support more reliable interlaboratory comparison and evaluation of realistic distributions: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Europe’s first 3D-printed concrete bike bridge is redefining sustainable infrastructure. Built with robotic concrete printing and optimized design, the bridge uses significantly less material while maintaining structural performance: bit.ly/4tNaVOz

The engineering behind Europe’s first 3D-printed concrete bike bridge

A pioneering Dutch project shows how 3D printing could reshape construction with lighter structures, lower emissions, and faster builds.

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This featured IEEE Access article highlights a new analytical framework for energy harvesting in RIS-assisted mmWave IoT networks under realistic blockage conditions: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

From electricity and communications to AI and sustainable energy, engineering continues to transform natural principles into innovations that improve everyday life. Let's celebrate the impact engineers make in shaping a smarter and more connected world.

Fashion meets AI! 👠🤖 New study introduces FFGLC, a fine‑grained fashion feature embedding that leverages Vision–Language Models to analyze social media posts from global, local, and contextual perspectives. 🔗 https://loom.ly/wqsVn1M @ieeeaccess.bsky.social

As online reviews grow more complex, new research shows how multimodal summarization can cut through noise and improve customer experience. 🛒 Read the full article in IEEE Access: 🔗 https://loom.ly/5pBgdME @ieeeaccess.bsky.social #AcademicSky #TechSky

This featured IEEE Access article introduces a novel method for estimating battery state of health (SOH) using ohmic resistance, alongside an SOC estimator that adapts across usage cycles through SOH compensation: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

China is taking another step in humanoid robotics by introducing official lifecycle ID systems for humanoid robots to support tracking, regulation, and industry standardization: interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

China gives humanoid robots unique official ID numbers for tracking

China issues 29-character ID codes to humanoid robots in Hubei to track lifecycle data, boost traceability and accountability.

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Engineering is more than equations and algorithms. It is the ability to integrate science, mathematics, communication, and human understanding to solve real-world challenges. Today’s engineers bridge disciplines to create technologies that power a smarter, more sustainable future.

New research in this featured IEEE Access article highlights that smartphone-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) shows that Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) can outperform traditional supervised models, even with limited labeled data: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

Benchmarking Encoders and Self-Supervised Learning for Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition

Smartphone-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) typically relies on deep learning models. However, performance varies with encoder architecture and the availability of labeled data. To address label...

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Japan is turning to robotics to address rising bear attacks, deploying handcrafted “Monster Wolf” robots to protect communities and farmland: interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

Japan faces robot wolf shortage amidst rising wild bear attacks

Japan is facing a surge in human-bear encounters, leading to a shortage of its most famous deterrent: the Monster Wolf robot.

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Benchmarking rhythmic control for wearable robots: New study in #IEEEAccess compares three CPG models to understand how oscillators shape hip, knee, and ankle trajectories. 🦿 Read the full article: 🔗 https://loom.ly/1_Xm4pA @ieeeaccess.bsky.social #TechSky #AI

𝐈𝐒𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲: UWarp: A Whole Slide Image Registration Pipeline to Characterize Scanner-Induced Local Domain Shift With Spain, Poland, Italy and Egypt! In @ieeeaccess.bsky.social 👉 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/115...

UWarp: A Whole Slide Image Registration Pipeline to Characterize Scanner-Induced Local Domain Shift

Histopathology slide digitization introduces scanner-induced domain shift that can significantly impact computational pathology models based on deep learning methods. In the state-of-the-art, this shi...

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Sparse rewards are still one of the hardest problems in reinforcement learning. When feedback is delayed, most agents struggle to learn anything meaningful. A recent IEEE Access article proposes a different approach: 🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Autonomous Reward Shaping via Self-Generated Trajectories for Sparse-Reward Reinforcement Learning

A central challenge in reinforcement learning is enabling agents to efficiently learn in environments where rewards are sparse or significantly delayed. Many reward shaping approaches rely on handcraf...

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A new breakthrough in AI-powered robotics is bringing us toward a future where humanoid assistants can handle everyday household tasks. These robots can understand human environments and translate instructions into real-world actions: bit.ly/4mjlMNX

'World's first' humanoid robot for real household use launched in China

World’s first service humanoid, UniX AI’s Panther enters homes with global rollout, marking a step toward everyday robot use.

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Sparse rewards are still one of the hardest problems in reinforcement learning. When feedback is delayed, most agents struggle to learn anything meaningful. A recent IEEE Access article proposes a different approach: 🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Autonomous Reward Shaping via Self-Generated Trajectories for Sparse-Reward Reinforcement Learning

A central challenge in reinforcement learning is enabling agents to efficiently learn in environments where rewards are sparse or significantly delayed. Many reward shaping approaches rely on handcraf...

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At IEEE Access, we recognize that failure isn’t the opposite of success. It’s part of the process. Every setback is a step toward innovation, discovery, and growth. Engineering breakthroughs don’t happen without experimentation, persistence, and the courage to try again.