Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs)

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...

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...

Electric motors expanding application and efficiency in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids

MIT News 25 Oct 2016

Electric motors have been around since Thomas Davenport built the first functional model in 1834, and they have played a growing part in our lives ever since. Today, they continue to replace diesel an...

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. ...

MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor

CSAIL MIT 11 Jul 2016

Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....