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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” They later founded CMT, with Madden serving as its chief scientist.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Yes, it's possible that we're in for yet another AI winter in the not-so-distant future. In 1967, MIT professor. MIT professor Marvin Minsky predicted in 1967 that true artificial intelligence would be created within a generation. The MIT Museum. Yet there's little sense of doom among researchers.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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The extension included investments from Tony Fadell’s Future Shape and other private investors. The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. Marin Solja?i?,

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future. Earlier post.) (The

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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Paper ] Wyss Associate Faculty members, Conor Walsh and Rob Wood discuss their visions for the future of bio-inspired soft robotics. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [ Wyss Institute ] Towel folding: still not easy for robots.

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Thomson Reuters report finds established auto industry companies, not Silicon Valley, leading development of autonomous driving tech

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The report, which analyzes global patent activity in the field of self-driving automobiles over the last five years, identifies the global leaders in the development of the technologies and also makes predictions about the future of driverless cars. Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20.

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AI Experts Speak: Memorable Quotes from Spectrum's AI Coverage

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Dig into every industry, and you'll find AI changing the nature of work.” — DANIELA RUS , director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From “ AI and the Future of Work: The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence " (November 2019). “We Or see the full report for more articles on the future of AI.

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