Tag: CSAIL
Teleoperating Robots with Virtual Reality
Certain industries have traditionally not had the luxury of telecommuting. Many manufacturing jobs, for example, require a physical presence to operate machinery.But what if such jobs could...
An Algorithm for Your Blind Spot
Light lets us see the things that surround us, but what if we could also use it to see things hidden around corners?It sounds...
Scientists Develop Shape-Shifting ‘Superhero’ Robot
Researchers have created a miniature ‘superhero’ robot capable of transforming itself with different ‘outfits’ to perform a variety of tasks.Inspired by origami, scientists from...
“Superhero” Robot Wears Different Outfits for Different Tasks
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While...
Automatic Code Reuse
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows programmers to transplant code from one program...
“Peel-and-Go” Printable Structures Fold Themselves
As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating printable structures that will fold themselves into useful three-dimensional...
Robot Learns to Follow Orders like Alexa
Despite what you might see in movies, today’s robots are still very limited in what they can do. They can be great for many...
Making Data Centers More Energy Efficient
Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database queries are relatively slow, most sites also maintain so-called cache servers, which list the...
Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and...
Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects
Today’s 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, which means that they could pack a billion tiny cubes of different materials...
Reshaping Computer-aided Design
Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). Ironically, while CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them is actually...
Artificial Intelligence Suggests Recipes Based on Food Photos
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for...
Watch 3-D Movies at Home, sans Glasses
While 3-D movies continue to be popular in theaters, they haven’t made the leap to our homes just yet — and the reason rests...
Peering into Neural Networks
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data, are responsible for today’s best-performing artificial intelligence systems, from...
Drones that Drive
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature — many birds, insects, and other animals can do both. If we...
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...
Cinematography on the Fly
In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters — including “The Fast and the Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street”...
Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it,...
Detecting Walking Speed with Wireless Signals
We’ve long known that blood pressure, breathing, body temperature and pulse provide an important window into the complexities of human health. But a growing...
Faster Page Loads
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user’s home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the...
