Machine learning

MIT postdoc Cristina Rea records data about disruptions in fusion plasmas from the DIII-D control room.

Taming fusion with machine learning

Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research.

July 2, 2018

An example of a therapy session augmented with humanoid robot NAO [SoftBank Robotics], which was used in the EngageMe study. Tracking of limbs/faces was performed using the CMU Perceptual Lab's OpenPose utility.

Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy

Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.

June 27, 2018

MIT researchers describe a machine-learning algorithm that can register brain scans and other 3-D images more than 1,000 times more quickly using novel learning techniques.

Faster analysis of medical images

Algorithm makes the process of comparing 3-D scans up to 1,000 times faster.

June 18, 2018

A team of MIT engineers has developed a “smart power outlet” in the form of a device that can analyze electrical current usage from a single or multiple outlets.

MIT engineers build smart power outlet

Design can “learn” to identify plugged-in appliances, distinguish dangerous electrical spikes from benign ones.

June 15, 2018

Teaching robots how to move objects

PhD candidate and Amazon Robotics Challenge winner Maria Bauza helps to improve how robots interact with the world.

June 12, 2018

Using wireless signals, RF-Pose could serve as a health care system to monitor patients' movements from the other side of a wall.

Artificial intelligence senses people through walls

Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”

June 12, 2018

MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence

Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.

June 11, 2018

Researchers in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering are using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to enhance the products we use in everyday life.

Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence

Mechanical engineering researchers are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance the products we use in everyday life.

June 1, 2018

This cloaking grenade, used for hiding troop operations from view on the battlefield, is an example of nanoparticles that reflect a particular color of light based on their exact size and composition. New work by MIT researchers provides a way to predict the light-scattering properties of layered nanoparticles – or to design particles to match a desired type of light-scattering behavior.

AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles

Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.

June 1, 2018

A system developed at MIT aims to teach artificial agents a range of chores, including setting the table and making coffee.

Teaching chores to an artificial agent

Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.

May 30, 2018

At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation tomorrow, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present a new lane-change algorithm.

Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do

Algorithm computes “buffer zones” around autonomous vehicles and reassess them on the fly.

May 22, 2018

Delta Electronics Professor of Computer Science Regina Barzilay (left) gives a tutorial on the fundamentals of machine learning.

Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

May 17, 2018

WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and sensing algorithms.

Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites

New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.

May 9, 2018

Southeast Asia is seen shrouded by smoke in this NASA satellite photo.

Clearing the air over Southeast Asia

Study finds reducing biomass burning is not enough to significantly improve air quality in Southeast Asia.

May 7, 2018

A team of MIT researchers tested MapLite on a Toyota Prius outfitted with a range of LIDAR and IMU sensors.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.