MIT CSAIL just revealed footage of SoFi, the lab’s robotic fish, which looks right at home swimming amongst the coral reefs of Fiji. The project is an attempt to create an autonomous underwater vehicle that looks as close to a real fish as possible, in hopes of studying marine life without disturbing them in the process. […]
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MIT gadget puts multiple artificial organs into a paperback-sized connected system
If you want to see how a proposed drug affects human physiology, your options are limited — and usually you end up using mice, which are in many ways poor analogues. What’s a pharmacologist to do? MIT researchers have a solution: a “body on a chip” that simulates up to 10 interconnected human organs at once using millions of living cells.
View More MIT gadget puts multiple artificial organs into a paperback-sized connected systemMIT aims to spark innovation in Southeast Asia with its Global Startup Workshop
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s most hallowed educational institutions is turning its attention to Southeast Asia where it hopes to plant the seed of innovation among a new generation of potential entrepreneurs.
That’s through MIT’s Global Startup Workshop (GSW), a 20-year-old conference on innovation and technology, which is headed back to… Read More
Forget Ikea, MIT is working on a system of robot carpenters that can build your furniture at home
MIT CSAIL researchers created a robotic carpentry system so that next time you’re trying to build your own furniture you’re not chopping off your fingers. Read more…More about Robots, Mashable Video, Robot, Robotics, and Mit
View More Forget Ikea, MIT is working on a system of robot carpenters that can build your furniture at homeMIT to revisit ride-sharing study after Uber rebuttal
The lead academic behind an MIT CEEPR research paper which casts doubt on the sustainability of driving for Uber or Lyft has accepted Uber’s criticism of how driver income data was gathered and said he will revise the research using more generous income calculations. Read More
WHOOP raises $25 million to tell everyone from athletes to execs about their health
WHOOP, the company behind the Tesla of health tracking and sports performance wearables, has raised a whopping $25 million in a new round of funding. The round was comprised of a slew of prominent investment firms and individual investors includi…
View More WHOOP raises $25 million to tell everyone from athletes to execs about their healthUber CEO slams MIT after study on ride-hailing minimum wages
$3.37.
That’s the meager median wage Uber and Lyft drivers make per hour, according to a paper published by MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research that surveyed over 1,000 drivers in the United States.
The study made he…
Veil is private browsing for the ultra-paranoid
If you’re worried about someone finding out what you’re pointing your browser at, there are plenty of options for keeping it secret, with varying levels of difficulty and effectiveness. Veil takes things further than perhaps any other anonymous browsing method by masking the page you’re viewing not just from would-be attackers, but from your own operating system. Read More
Feature Labs launches out of MIT to accelerate the development of machine learning algorithms
Feature Labs, a startup with roots in research begun at MIT, officially launched today with a set of tools to help data scientists build machine learning algorithms more quickly. Co-founder and CEO Max Kantor says the company has developed a way to automate “feature engineering,” which is often a time consuming and manual process for data scientists. “Feature Labs helps… Read More
Combining augmented reality, 3D printing and a robotic arm to prototype in real time
Robotic Modeling Assistant (RoMA) is a joint project out of MIT and Cornell that brings together a variety of different emerging technologies in an attempt to build a better prototyping machine. Using an augmented reality headset and two controll…
View More Combining augmented reality, 3D printing and a robotic arm to prototype in real timeAlgorithmic zoning could be the answer to cheaper housing and more equitable cities
Zoning codes are a century old, and the lifeblood of all major U.S. cities (except arguably Houston), determining what can be built where and what activities can take place in a neighborhood. Yet as their complexity has risen, academics are incre…
View More Algorithmic zoning could be the answer to cheaper housing and more equitable citiesMIT teaches drones to fly with uncertainty
MIT researchers are working on a new steering system for drones that uses uncertainty to ensure that they don’t hit obstacles as they fly autonomously. The system is a bit complex but it’s called NanoMap and it quite simply finds ways to get from point A to point B without crashing and while handling random objects in its path. Spectrum describes the system in detail but basically… Read More