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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...

Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?
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Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?

A new study shows that the public is conflicted over the safety of autonomous vehicles, taking a notably inconsistent approach of how the vehicles should perform...

Ingestible Origami Robot
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Ingestible Origami Robot

Researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach...

Robotic Consensus
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Robotic Consensus

MIT researchers will describe at ICRA 2016 a decentralized planning algorithm for teams of robots that factors in both stationary and moving obstacles.

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...

Recognizing Correct Code
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Recognizing Correct Code

MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order...

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...

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.

A Bipedal Robot With Human Reflexes
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A Bipedal Robot With Human Reflexes

Researchers from MIT have designed an interface that takes advantage of split-second reflexes by allowing a human to take over the complex actions of a robot.

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...

Centimeter-Long Origami Robot
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Centimeter-Long Origami Robot

MIT researchers have developed a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and whose motion is controlled by external...

Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research
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Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research

The research, theory, and algorithms behind Team MIT's sixth-place finish in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Helping Robots Put It All Together
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Helping Robots Put It All Together

An algorithm developed at MIT lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.

Graphics in Reverse
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Graphics in Reverse

MIT researchers will demonstrate at an upcoming conference that probabilistic programming can be competitive with conventional programs created with thousands of...

Software That Knows the Risks
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Software That Knows the Risks

Planning algorithms developed at MIT evaluate the probability of success for a plan, such as a travel route, and suggest low-risk alternatives.

Vision System for Household Robots
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Vision System for Household Robots

New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.

In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch ­p to Primate Brain
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch ­p to Primate Brain

A new study from MIT neuroscientists has found that a latest generation of computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.

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.

Projecting a Robot's 'intentions'
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Projecting a Robot's 'intentions'

A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers visualize a mobile robot's anticipated path.
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