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Automated System Generates Robotic Parts for Novel Tasks
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...
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New AI Programming Language Goes Beyond Deep Learning
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.
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From One Brain Scan, More Information for Medical AI
Researchers at MIT have developed a system to gather more information from images used to train machine-learning models, including those that can analyze medical...
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Algorithm Tells Robots Where Nearby Humans are Headed
A new algorithm accurately aligns partial trajectories in real time, allowing motion predictors in self-driving cars to accurately anticipate the timing of a person's...
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Autonomous Boats Can Target, Latch Onto Each Other
Researchers have designed autonomous boats that can automatically target and latch onto each other.
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This Robot Helps You Lift Objects--By Looking at Your Biceps
A new robotic system uses machines to help people lift objects by monitoring their muscle movements, producing a smoother robot-human collaboration.
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Bringing Human-Like Reasoning to Driverless Car Navigation
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....
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MIT and .S. Air Force Sign Agreement to Launch AI Accelerator
MIT and the U.S. Air Force have signed an agreement to launch a new program designed to make fundamental advances in artificial intelligence that could improve...
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New Approach Could Accelerate Efforts to Catalog Vast Numbers of Cells
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
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Improving Security as AI Moves to Smartphones
Researchers suggest the vulnerability of compressed, or quantized, artificial intelligence models to adversarial attack could be remedied by adding a mathematical...
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Robots That Can Sort Recycling
A new robotic system can detect if an object is paper, metal, or plastic.
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Computing the Future
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a fireside chat, featuring six of its professors who have received ACM's A.M. Turing Award.
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Big Issues on the Table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver listened to a question on stage Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, paused for a moment, and delivered a surprising...
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Mini Cheetah Is First Four-Legged Robot to Do a Backflip
Researchers have engineered a four-legged robot modeled after a cheetah, which is able to perform a 360-degree backflip from a standing position.
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Robots Track Moving Objects With Unprecedented Precision
Researchers are employing radio-frequency identification tags to help track moving objects with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
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MIT Robot Combines Vision, Touch to Learn Game of Jenga
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a robot that taught itself to play Jenga.
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Engineers Program Marine Robots to Take Calculated Risks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm that lets autonomous underwater vehicles weigh the risks and rewards of exploring...
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Putting Neural Networks nder the Microscope
Researchers have developed a method of identifying individual nodes in neural networks that capture specific linguistic features.
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Want to Squelch Fake News? Let Readers Take Charge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...
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