MIT engineers build smart power outlet
Design can “learn” to identify plugged-in appliances, distinguish dangerous electrical spikes from benign ones.
Teaching robots how to move objects
PhD candidate and Amazon Robotics Challenge winner Maria Bauza helps to improve how robots interact with the world.
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.”
MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
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.
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.
Teaching chores to an artificial agent
Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.
Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
Algorithm computes “buffer zones” around autonomous vehicles and reassess them on the fly.
Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry
MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.
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.
Clearing the air over Southeast Asia
Study finds reducing biomass burning is not enough to significantly improve air quality in Southeast Asia.
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.
Building AI systems that make fair decisions
Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society to launch new MicroMasters and PhD programs
Interdisciplinary doctoral program in statistics and online MicroMasters program in statistics and data science begin this fall.
Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.