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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...

Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics
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Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics

Researchers have devised a way to wirelessly power small sensors or drug delivery devices that could reside in the digestive tract indefinitely after being swallowed...

Security For Multirobot Systems
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Security For Multirobot Systems

Researchers have developed a technique for preventing malicious hackers from commandeering robot teams' communication networks.

Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems
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Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems

Researchers have discovered a new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal.

Learning Words From Pictures
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Learning Words From Pictures

A system that correlates recorded speech with images could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video
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Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video

Machine-learning system doesn't require costly hand-annotated data.

Making Computers Explain Themselves
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Making Computers Explain Themselves

Researchers at MIT have described a new way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions...

3-D Printed Structures 'remember' Their Shapes
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3-D Printed Structures 'remember' Their Shapes

Heat-responsive materials may aid in controlled drug delivery and solar panel tracking.

Toward Practical Quantum Computers
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Toward Practical Quantum Computers

Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.

Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals On Demand
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Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals On Demand

The portable microbioreactor system is designed to use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.

Automatic Bug Finder
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Automatic Bug Finder

Researchers from MIT CSAIL and the University of Maryland have developed a system that analyzes applications that import functions from programming frameworks.

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics
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New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics

An independent non-profit founded by MIT has won a competition for U.S. federal funding to create an institute to accelerate the development of a high-tech, U.S...

The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?
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The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?

Researchers from MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria report that they have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap.

Harnessing the Energy of Small Bending Motions
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Harnessing the Energy of Small Bending Motions

Researchers at MIT have developed an electrochemical-based method of generating electrical power that could harvest energy from a broad range of natural motions...

Machines That Learn Like People
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Machines That Learn Like People

Researchers at MIT have developed a machine-learning system based on a computational model of visual representation that could make highly reliable object discriminations...

Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper
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Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper

Google researchers released a paper last week suggesting that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena. Scott Aaronson of MIT helps make sense of the new...

Smarter Lenses
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Smarter Lenses

A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.

More-Flexible Machine Learning
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More-Flexible Machine Learning

Giving machine-learning systems "partial credit" during training improves image classification.

Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences
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Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences

Infinite Analystics' recommendation software analyzes data from multiple sources to provide a more personalized online-buying experience.
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