Engineers program marine robots to take calculated risks
Algorithm could help autonomous underwater vehicles explore risky but scientifically-rewarding environments.
Algorithm could help autonomous underwater vehicles explore risky but scientifically-rewarding environments.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
An algorithm that teaches robot agents how to exchange advice to complete a task helps them learn faster.
Model identifies instances when autonomous systems have learned from examples that may cause dangerous errors in the real world.
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.
"Magic-angle" graphene named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year; first ionic plane and earliest evidence of hydrogen gas named to top 10 breakthroughs.
Platform offers the precision that shoebox-sized CubeSats need to beam down hefty data packets.
Stewart Isaacs, a PhD student in AeroAstro and a world champion jump roper, credits his academic successes to his long career in competitive jump roping.
The silent, lightweight aircraft doesn’t depend on fossil fuels.
The School of Engineering’s faculty leadership weigh in on what the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will mean for their students and faculty.
A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.
Researchers find most fantasy sports are based on skill, not luck.
Existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers, study finds.