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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs

An MIT team is developing a smartphone app that can tell if a car's tires need air, spark plugs are bad, or air filter needs replacing.

Robot Rolls With the Rules of Pedestrian Conduct
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Robot Rolls With the Rules of Pedestrian Conduct

Engineers at MIT have designed an autonomous robot with "socially aware navigation," that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing the general codes of pedestrian...

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...

Voice Control Everywhere
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Voice Control Everywhere

In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a special-purpose chip which could make speech recognition ubiquitous in...

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.

Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera
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Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Georgia believe they can make eye tracking technology pervasive with software turns any smartphone into an eye-tracking...

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...

Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams

MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...

Enhancing Movement With Computational Models
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Enhancing Movement With Computational Models

MIT Ph.D. student David Hill maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices.

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.

Customizing 3-D Printing
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Customizing 3-D Printing

Researchers from MIT and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel have developed a design tool that automatically turns CAD files for a 3-D printer into...

Object Recognition For Robots
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Object Recognition For Robots

Researchers at MIT have developed a SLAM-aware monocular object recognition system that achieves stronger performance than classical object recognition systems...

Thumbnail Track Pad
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Thumbnail Track Pad

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

Diagnosis By Keyboard
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Diagnosis By Keyboard

By revealing loss of motor skills, typing patterns may help to identify the early onset of Parkinson's.

Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory have built a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually...

Six Keys to Sports Analytics
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...

Better How-to Videos
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Better How-to Videos

Educational researchers have developed a system that crowdsources the annotation of instructional videos to increase their value. 

Computers That Teach By Example
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Computers That Teach By Example

MIT researchers have developed a pattern-recognition system that could improve human decision-making.

Recommendation Theory
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Recommendation Theory

MIT researchers introduce a model for online recommendation systems.
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