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Manual Control
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Manual Control

Oblong Industries is bringing gesture-control technology developed for Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and other Hollywood films to corporate conference rooms...

Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results
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Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results

A classroom design competition involving cellular-networking protocols turned two teams of MIT undergraduates into co-authors of a paper published in the ACM SIGCOMM...

Want a Happy Worker? Let Robots Take Control
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Want a Happy Worker? Let Robots Take Control

New research by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests that workers prefer letting robots have control over human tasks in manufacturing...

Delivery By Drone
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Delivery By Drone

A new algorithm lets drones monitor "health" issues such as fuel levels, the condition of their propellers, cameras, and other sensors throughout long package-delivery...

Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Crawls Away
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Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Crawls Away

Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts by MIT and Harvard researchers demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.

Extracting Audio from Visual Information
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Extracting Audio from Visual Information

An algorithm can recover speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag or other objects filmed through soundproof glass.

What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell ­S About How to Fix Online Education
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What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell ­S About How to Fix Online Education

Researchers at the MIT have analyzed data from Harvard University and MIT's shared online learning platform to gain a richer understanding of what makes massively...

Going to the Red Planet
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Going to the Red Planet

Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...

Vision-Correcting Displays
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Vision-Correcting Displays

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision...

Collecting Just the Right Data
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Collecting Just the Right Data

When data is either difficult to collect or too time-consuming to process, the new technique can identify the subset of items to target that will yield the most...

No-Wait Data Centers
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No-Wait Data Centers

The Fasspass network-management system has been shown to reduce data-transmission delays in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent.

Getting a Grip on Robotic Grasp
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Getting a Grip on Robotic Grasp

Researchers at MIT have developed a wrist-mounted device that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand with two robotic fingers.

Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile
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Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile

Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses or chronic diseases are symptomatic.

Drone Lighting
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Drone Lighting

Researchers at MIT and Cornell are developing autonomous aerial vehicles that automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.

Research Reveals a Gender Gap in the Nation's Labs
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Research Reveals a Gender Gap in the Nation's Labs

A study of 24 top institutions found that women are greatly underrepresented in the labs of the highest-achieving male professors.

Collaborative Learning — For Robots
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Collaborative Learning — For Robots

Algorithm lets independent robots collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data.

A Charging Solution For Delivery Drones?
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A Charging Solution For Delivery Drones?

CSAIL research suggests that unmanned aerial vehicles can recharge their batteries by perching on power lines.

New Job For Robots: Detect Leaks in Pipes
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New Job For Robots: Detect Leaks in Pipes

A self-propelled robotic device can speed through pipes, pinpointing leaks more accurately than existing methods.

High-Performance Computing Programming with Ease
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High-Performance Computing Programming with Ease

Alan Edelman leads the global, open-source collaborative development of "Julia," a powerful but flexible programming language for high performance computing.

Who's Using Your Data?
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Who's Using Your Data?

Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...
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