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Giving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact...
05 June 2017, by
MIT News
Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
Computer scientists have been working for decades on automatic navigation systems to aid the visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the wh...
02 June 2017, by
CSAIL MIT
Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms
Every other year, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling hosts a competition in which computer systems designed by conference participants try to find the best solution to a...
09 February 2017, by
CSAIL MIT
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
Machines that predict the future, robots that patch wounds and wireless emotion-detectors are just a few of the exciting projects that came out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
19 December 2016, by
CSAIL MIT
Learning words from pictures
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...
16 December 2016, by
MIT News
Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets
One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI ...
14 November 2016, by
MIT News
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
11 November 2016, by
MIT News
Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
By: Larry Hardesty
At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
10 November 2016, by
CSAIL MIT
Making computers explain themselves
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...
28 October 2016, by
MIT News
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
21 October 2016, by
MIT News
Ingestible origami robot
By: Larry Hardesty
In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...
13 May 2016, by
MIT News
3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required
By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...
06 April 2016, by
CSAIL MIT
