Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Giving robots a sense of touch

MIT News 05 Jun 2017

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...

Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

CSAIL MIT 02 Jun 2017

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...

Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms

CSAIL MIT 09 Feb 2017

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...

Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves

CSAIL MIT 19 Dec 2016

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 ...

Learning words from pictures

MIT News 16 Dec 2016

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...

Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets

MIT News 14 Nov 2016

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 ...

Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance

MIT News 11 Nov 2016

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...

Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters

CSAIL MIT 10 Nov 2016

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 ...

Making computers explain themselves

MIT News 28 Oct 2016

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...

Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars

MIT News 21 Oct 2016

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. ...

Ingestible origami robot

MIT News 13 May 2016

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...

3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required

CSAIL MIT 06 Apr 2016

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, ...