Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification.

With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.

Assistive technology like screen readers for the blind help people with disabilities use computers and smartphones, but they can be tripped up if webpages or documents are improperly formatted.

With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality.

The machine-learning method works on most mobile devices and could be expanded to assess other motor disorders outside of the doctor’s office.

Asking users the dollar value of the costs and benefits of walking in exoskeletons is a better way of finding out how users feel about them than measuring calories saved.

A new dataset can help scientists develop automatic systems that generate richer, more descriptive captions for online charts.

Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold.

The new design works with the diaphragm to improve breathing.

Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.