MIT creates video you can reach out and touch
Strictly speaking, video isn’t an interactive medium, but a new research project from MIT aims to change that: The school’s CSAIL lab has come up with a technique through which viewers can reach out...
View Article‘MegaMIMO 2.0’ wireless routers work together to triple bandwidth and double...
Wireless interference is one of those things that we tend to not think about, because, well, we can’t see it. But routers are all over the place, sometimes several in a room when you’re in an office,...
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MIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake
In a new video from MIT’s CSAIL department, a smirking industrial robot from Rethink picks up spray paint cans and spools of wire, dropping them in the properly labeled bin. The robot hesitates...
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Today’s Stories Jay Z launches Arrive to fund startups, offer branding support and more MIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake Startup School will soon be in session at Y...
View ArticleMIT develops a vibrating wearable to help people with visual impairments...
For such a simple tool, the white cane has been incredibly enduring. With all of the technological advances that have been made over the past century, we haven’t come up with much better than a stick...
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Taking a ride in MIT’s self-driving wheelchair
Over the past few months, CSAIL’s (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) self-driving wheelchair has become a familiar sight around the MIT halls. It’s a nice little rolling...
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MIT’s Daniela Rus is leading a robotics revolution
Daniela Rus’s morning is packed. My arrival appears to come as a bit of a surprise, as she readies herself to enter the gauntlet of wall-to-wall meetings. She considers the situation for a moment...
View ArticleHere are some of the groundbreaking robots you’ll see at TC Sessions:...
TC Sessions: Robotics takes place on Monday, July 17 at MIT, and the agenda is stacked with the best minds, engineers and founders in the robotic industry. And many are bringing some mechanical...
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MIT is building a system that can identify a recipe using pictures of food
Mastering the ability to distinguish hot dogs from not hot dogs is truly one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Attempting to one-up that sort of masterstroke would surely be flying too close to the...
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MIT’s Robogami lets you build custom 3D-printable robots from standard,...
Flat-pack furniture made IKEA a global powerhouse, and the same principles may help create a new generation of robots. Interactive Robogami is a project from MIT that lets users create ambulatory...
View ArticleMIT’s new robot can put on different exoskeletons to gain new powers
MIT’s Computers Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has created a new robot that’s designed to be as adaptable as possible, with the ability to use different “outfits” that each provide...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Amazon’s New High-End Echo
Today’s Stories Amazon announces a high-end $99 Echo to compete with Apple’s HomePod MIT’s new robot can put on different exoskeletons to gain new powers Ford and Lyft’s new self-driving partnership...
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An MIT team has created color-changing 3D prints
Here’s another cool project out of MIT’s CSAIL labs. Researchers are looking to bring color-changing properties to the 3D-printing process in an attempt to help reduce material waste. That last bit is...
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MIT’s soft robotic fish is studying real ones in Fiji
MIT CSAIL just revealed footage of SoFi, the lab’s robotic fish, which looks right at home swimming amongst the coral reefs of Fiji. The project is an attempt to create an autonomous underwater vehicle...
View ArticleMIT’s deflated balloon robot hand can pick up objects 100x its own weight
Soft, biologically inspired robots have become one of the field’s most exciting offshoots, with machines that are capable of squeezing between obstacles and conforming to the world around them. A joint...
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MIT’s recycling sorting robot can ‘feel’ the difference between materials
RoCycle is, naturally, short for “recycling robot,” the latest offering out of MIT’s CSAIL lab. The pick and place ‘bot utilizes a unique combination of sensors to help distinguish the material...
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MIT’s RFocus technology could turn your walls into antennas
RFocus asks a simple question: What if instead of just antennas and transmitters on access points and mobile devices, we put the things just about everywhere? You know, just totally slather the walls...
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MIT showcases soft robotic sensors made from flexible, off-the-shelf materials
A team at MIT’s CSAIL demonstrated a new kind of “skin” designed to bring a sense of touch and place to soft robotic arms. The findings, which debuted in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters this...
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MIT developed a wireless box that can detect COVID-19 patients’ movement and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge for healthcare workers. Among the major challenges are social distancing issues, which have required novel approaches to diagnosing and...
View ArticleIn effort to fight COVID-19, MIT robot gets to work disinfecting The Greater...
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has put one of its research projects to work providing disinfection services for The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), in an effort to slow...
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