MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
Helping robots handle uncertainty
Algorithm for planning multirobot collaborations makes complex models practical.
Helping robots put it all together
New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.
Object recognition for free
System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.
MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots
With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.
Better machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.
Software that knows the risks
Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives.
CSAIL opens lab to 150 local students for Hour of Code
Robots, virtual visit from will.i.am aim to get kids excited about programming.
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans.
Want a happy worker? Let robots take control.
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders.
Collecting just the right data
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target.
Who did what?
Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.
Rise of the compliant machines
MIT spinout Meka Robotics, recently acquired by Google, creates ‘sociable’ humanoids that could help advance human-robot interaction.