CSAIL

Engineers at MIT’s CSAIL have developed a smart carpet that can accurately estimate a person’s movements or body pose without needing cameras. The system could be useful for exercise feedback, monitoring falls, or tracking for VR and gaming.

Out of all the cool-looking forms that robots can take, a cube seems like a pretty boring choice. But MIT’s cute little cube bots can roll and tumble around, recognize each other, and stack themselves into whatever shape is needed.

Could robots and humans work together more seamlessly if the machines were able to take their cues from human movement. Scientists at MIT believe that they might, having developed an impressive robotic arm that is controlled by the movements of a human counterpart.​

Scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a versatile new robotic machine they say can learn to pick up and put down all kinds of things, even ones it has never seen before.​

Replicas of famous paintings are routinely created with printers that use only four inks – cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. RePaint, a new technique developed at MIT, combines artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and a rich 10-ink palette for much more faithful results in any lighting condition.

The RoBoat project is planning to get autonomous boats on the waters to ferry passengers and cargo, join together to form temporary floating structures, and monitor the environment. Now the design has been tweaked to be make them smarter, more agile and easier to manufacture.

​​Robots disguised as animals have come to provide us with unprecedented insights into the natural world. Now scientists have developed a robotic fish that can swim just like a real one, allowing them to get up close and personal as a way of studying marine life. ​

A research collaboration between MIT and Google has taken the idea of computational photography to a new level by creating a system than can automatically retouch images in real-time before the shot has even been taken.

A new suite of apps from MIT is designed to make productive use of those "micro-moments" throughout the day. Instead of twiddling your thumbs, bite-sized vocab tasks help you learn a language while you wait.