Artificial intelligence

Coupled with a digital pen, new models from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab can help detect dementia and other cognitive disorders earlier than ever before.

Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?

Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.

August 13, 2015

CSAIL researchers converted their lab into a miniature “bar” that included a PR2 robot “bartender” and two four-wheeled Turtlebot "waiters."

Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks

Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.

August 10, 2015

The proposed SLAM-aware object recognition system is able to localize and recognize several objects in the scene, aggregating detection evidence across multiple views. The annotations are actual predictions proposed by the system.

Object recognition for robots

Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.

July 23, 2015

Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply

New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.

July 17, 2015

Helping students stick with MOOCs

New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.

July 1, 2015

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.

June 8, 2015

Researchers are using a small group of robotic helicopters to address the problem of drone package delivery. The scenario includes base stations (marked with a "B") and destinations (marked with a "D"). The colored lines represent the planned paths of the 4 helicopters.

Helping robots handle uncertainty

Algorithm for planning multirobot collaborations makes complex models practical.

June 2, 2015

MIT researchers tested the viability of their algorithm by using it to guide a crew of three robots in the assembly of a chair.

Helping robots put it all together

New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.

May 27, 2015

The first layers (1 and 2) of a neural network trained to classify scenes seem to be tuned to geometric patterns of increasing complexity, but the higher layers (3 and 4) appear to be picking out particular classes of objects.

Object recognition for free

System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.

May 8, 2015

Researchers watch underwater footage taken by various AUVs exploring Australia's Scott Reef.

MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots

With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.

May 6, 2015

Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row).

Graphics in reverse

Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.

April 13, 2015

Better machine learning

Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.

February 24, 2015

Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?

CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.

February 18, 2015

Software that knows the risks

Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives.

January 16, 2015

Students get hands-on with one of CSAIL's Baxter robots.

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.

December 12, 2014

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