Soft robotic hand can pick up and identify a wide array of objects
Team from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab develops silicone rubber gripper and advanced object-identification algorithms.
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Learning language by playing games
System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Searching big data faster
Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields.
UAVs learn to fly solo
Nick Roy develops unmanned aerial vehicles that can operate autonomously in constrained spaces and unmapped environments.
“MultiFab” 3-D prints a record 10 materials at once, no assembly required
Printer from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab uses machine vision and 3-D scanning to self-correct and directly embed components.
Crash-tolerant data storage
Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.
A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.
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.
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.