Artificial intelligence

The stucco-like surface on the right looks darker and glossier than the one on the left even though the mean luminance of both images is equal. The luminance histogram of the image on the right is positively skewed and the one on the left is negatively skewed.

MIT shows how brain tells glossy from grainy surfaces

Work could let robots see better

April 19, 2007

MIT postdoctoral associate Aaron Edsinger gets some help from Domo, an assistive robot he has been developing for the last three years.

Assistive robot adapts to people, new places

April 9, 2007

Maggie Fermental, a stroke survivor and study participant, regained full motion at the elbow after 18 hours using the device and has maintained her progress to date. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('brace-standing-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Robotic brace aids stroke recovery

Worn on the arm, NeuroRobotic device is lightweight, portable

March 20, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

From left, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and David Gelernter speak at 'Creativity: The mind, machines and mathematics' held at MIT Nov. 30.

Hard drives will evolve into soft hearts ... or not

CSAIL debate on machine consciousness ends in a draw

December 5, 2006

Sherry Turkle worries the 'killer app' of sociable robots is that they elicit human care.

Robotic pets may be bad medicine for melancholy

Sherry Turkle finds human-machine love unsettling

November 29, 2006

CSAIL hosts debate on robotic 'nature' and future

Event will celebrate Turing's 'Computable Numbers' paper

November 28, 2006

Robots headed for deepwater oil, gas operations

November 8, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

MIT research engineer Joseph Curcio, left, helps launch a SCOUT for experiments conducted off the island of Pianosa, Italy, in July 2005.

Kayaks adapted to test marine robotics

August 7, 2006

Max Mitchell of Las Vegas holds his team's entry in the underwater robot competition held in the Alumni Pool on July 28, the finale of this year's MITES program. His team, Los Pepos, won the underwater Quidditch match, but not the overall robot competition. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('mites1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MITES makes a splash with robots

August 1, 2006

An artist's rendering shows the baseball-sized probes being designed by MIT researchers for Mars exploration.

Team envisions exploring Mars with mini probes

July 17, 2006

Sophomore Gregory Schroll, winner of this year's 2.007 contest, attributed his victory to driving practice and mastering CAD software.

2.007 robots face off at finals

May 23, 2006

Animatronic monkeys keep graduate student Rachel Kern company in her office at the Media Lab on Friday, May 12. Colleague Matt Adcock, background, has another monkey with him. The monkeys are designed to aid communication between colleagues.

Media Lab researcher gets into Monkey Business

May 17, 2006

2.007 victor shares advice for 2006

May 10, 2006

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