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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot a Sense of Touch
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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot a Sense of Touch

A robot equipped with a novel optical sensor is able to grasp a USB plug and insert it into a USB port.

Making Drones More Customizable
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Making Drones More Customizable

Airware has developed a standard platform for unmanned aerial vehicles that could help manufacturers easily design and customize drones for different applications...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Natural-Language Processing Techniques Aid Activity-Recognition Algorithm
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Natural-Language Processing Techniques Aid Activity-Recognition Algorithm

Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.

Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
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Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes

Mechanical engineering students in an MIT robotics class produced a wide array of robots to compete on a simulated ski slope in a prestigious annual competition...

Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans
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Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interactive Robotics Group director Julie Shah is focused on teaching inherently safe robots to work in teams with people,...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...

Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence

MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...

Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots

Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.

Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics
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Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics

Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...

Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions

The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
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