PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
August 27, 2015Printer from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab uses machine vision and 3-D scanning to self-correct and directly embed components.
August 24, 2015Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.
August 10, 2015Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.
July 23, 2015CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
June 8, 2015“Visual microphone” technology could lead to noninvasive identification of objects’ structural defects.
May 21, 2015System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.
May 8, 2015Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.
April 13, 2015New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.
January 12, 2015The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
January 8, 2015Deep-learning algorithm can weigh up a neighborhood better than humans.
September 24, 2014Equipped with a novel optical sensor, a robot grasps a USB plug and inserts it into a USB port.
September 19, 2014Algorithm tested aboard the International Space Station analyzes the rotation of objects in space.
September 10, 2014Mint Solutions tackles medication errors with scanning system that ensures patients get the right pills.
August 28, 2014Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
August 4, 2014Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.
May 14, 2014New algorithm uses subtle changes to make a face more memorable without changing a person’s overall appearance.
December 18, 2013CSAIL researchers are using a computational model that better understands peripheral vision to test the usability of MBTA subway maps.
October 4, 2013By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the systems’ failures.
September 19, 2013An algorithm that can accurately gauge heart rate by measuring tiny head movements in video data could ultimately help diagnose cardiac disease.
June 20, 2013