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Self-Transforming Robot Blocks Jump, Spin, Flip, Identify Each Other
Researchers have developed self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, and roll across the ground.
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Better Autonomous 'Reasoning' at Tricky Intersections
A new model can help autonomous vehicles determine when it is safe to proceed into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
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Helping Autonomous Vehicles See Around Corners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a system that perceives tiny fluctuations in ground shadows to ascertain whether an unseen object is...
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System Helps Smart Devices Find Their Position
A new system helps networks of smart devices find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
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Engineers Develop Multimaterial Fiber 'Ink' for 3D-Printed Devices
A new method utilizes standard three-dimensional printers to produce functioning devices with electronics already embedded within them.
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MIT's Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...
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Guided by AI, Robotic Platform Automates Molecule Manufacture
A new artificial intelligence-guided system uses robots to automate small-molecule fabrication.
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Phone Movement Predicts Personality Types
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
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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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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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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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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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Robots Track Moving Objects With nprecedented Precision
Researchers are employing radio-frequency identification tags to help track moving objects with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
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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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