Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate
Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their location while flying.
How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory system enables people to correct robot mistakes on multiple-choice tasks.
Charting a path to better cell models of the intestine
Researchers generate an intestinal cell mimic that can be harnessed in studies of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Study: Climate action can limit Asia’s growing water shortages
Following the Paris accord could reduce risk of severe water-access problems, researchers find.
“Artificial blubber” protects divers in frigid water
MIT engineers develop a way to triple the survival time for swimmers in wetsuits.
Checking China’s pollution, by satellite
Study finds reduction in sulfur emissions from power plants.
Faster analysis of medical images
Algorithm makes the process of comparing 3-D scans up to 1,000 times faster.
MIT engineers build smart power outlet
Design can “learn” to identify plugged-in appliances, distinguish dangerous electrical spikes from benign ones.
MIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
Platform may enable continuous, low-cost, reliable devices that detect chemicals in the environment.
Getting the world off dirty diesels
Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks could produce a meaningful improvement in global air quality.
MIT engineers recruit microbes to help fight cholera
Probiotic bacteria can diagnose, prevent, and treat infections.
Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
New printing technique could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices.
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.”
A new way to mend a broken heart
“Therepi” device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of medicine from a port under a patient’s skin to augment cardiac function.
Novel transmitter protects wireless data from hackers
Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted and jammed.