MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 22, 2018
Researchers have embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices within fibers woven into soft, washable fabrics, and converted them into communication...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2018
A new optical filter on a chip can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light simultaneously.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed cell-sized robots that can sense their environment, store data, and conduct computational tasks...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2018
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...MIT News From ACM News | June 21, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reduced the size and power consumption of a computer chip they designed in 2017 to help honeybee-sized drones...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2018
Researchers have highly maneuverable autonomous boats that, in waterway-rich cities, could be used to transport people or deliver goods.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 30, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created an albatross-like robot that can skim along the water's surface while also surfing the waves like a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2018
Systems of mathematical equations can forecast the most informative data to collect for an autonomous underwater vehicle mission and the best way to reach the sampling...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2018
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)—marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide...MIT News From ACM News | May 14, 2018
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2018
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2018
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2018
Researchers have demonstrated the successful interaction of photons, which could clear a path toward using light particles in quantum computing.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2018
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2018
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2017
Researchers say they have created a solution to the "interconnect bottleneck" that slows communication between different chip elements.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 24, 2017