A robot that senses hidden objects

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office • mit
April 1, 2021 ~6 min

Algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge “adversarial” inputs

Method builds on gaming techniques to help autonomous vehicles navigate in the real world, where signals may be imperfect.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 8, 2021 ~8 min


Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

The single piece of glass produces crisp panoramic images.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 18, 2020 ~7 min

Helping robots avoid collisions

Realtime Robotics has created a controller that helps robots safely move around on the fly.

Zach Winn | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 17, 2020 ~7 min

Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs

Mobile system could reduce health care workers’ exposure to Covid-19 virus.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 31, 2020 ~6 min

Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language

Music gesture artificial intelligence tool developed at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses body movements to isolate the sounds of individual instruments.

Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence • mit
June 25, 2020 ~4 min

A new model of vision

Computer model of face processing could reveal how the brain produces richly detailed visual representations so quickly.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
March 4, 2020 ~10 min

To self-drive in the snow, look under the road

Weather’s a problem for autonomous cars. MIT’s new system shows promise by using “ground-penetrating radar” instead of cameras or lasers.

Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL • mit
Feb. 26, 2020 ~5 min


Bridging the gap between human and machine vision

Researchers develop a more robust machine-vision architecture by studying how human vision responds to changing viewpoints of objects.

Kris Brewer | Center for Brains, Minds and Machines • mit
Feb. 11, 2020 ~5 min

Using computers to view the unseen

A new computational imaging method could change how we view hidden information in scenes.

Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
Dec. 6, 2019 ~7 min

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