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OCTOBER 28, 2019

To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner. ShadowCam used the tags as features of the environment to zero in on specific patches of pixels that may contain shadows.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

is entering into a two-year research collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab to develop a semi-autonomous vehicle prototype that demonstrates the future of human-centered artificial intelligence in the automotive space. —Bryan Reimer, MIT. Autoliv, Inc.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. —Kael Greco, project leader, MIT SENSEable City Laboratory. —Professor Carlo Ratti, director, MIT SENSEable City Laboratory.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Building on the capabilities of the automated Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle unveiled last month ( earlier post ), Ford is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University to research and to develop solutions to some of the technical challenges surrounding automated driving. —Greg Stevens.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Source: MIT. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Click to enlarge. 2013.05.081.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will be investing approximately $50 million over the next 5 years to establish joint research centers at Stanford and MIT, focused on the research and development of intelligent vehicle and mobility technologies. —Kiyotaka Ise, TMC Senior Managing Officer and Chief Officer, R&D Group.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

This mechanical apparatus limits the scan rate of the LiDAR system while increasing both size and complexity, leading to concerns about long-term reliability, especially in harsh environments. The laser itself is not integrated into the chips; however, there are on-chip lasers that could be integrated in the future.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments. Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern.

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JULY 31, 2023

Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. Raibert showed concept art at ICRA that included robots working in domestic environments such as kitchens, living rooms, and laundry rooms as well as industrial settings. “I He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Researchers at MIT have developed a new detailed air-quality model to simulate the effects of physical, chemical, and meteorological processing of highly reactive trace species in urban areas.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. It can be also steered to navigate through a cluttered environment with obstacles. The highest altitude achieved in this flight was 20 m. At the time, that was a record for the helicopter. [ That is all.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The headquarters will be located in Silicon Valley near Stanford University, with a second facility to be located near MIT. Toyota believes artificial intelligence has significant potential to support future industrial technologies and the creation of an entirely new industry. The new company will begin operations in January 2016.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Solaria Labs , an innovation incubator established in 2015 by Liberty Mutual Insurance, is introducing an open API developer portal that combines public data with proprietary insurance knowledge, helping to inform future products and apps for customers. —Adam L’Italien, vice president, Innovation, Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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MAY 14, 2020

These advances will lay the groundwork for a future where advanced reactors operate with a staffing plan and fixed O&M costs more competitive with those of other generation sources. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments. Paper ] Wyss Associate Faculty members, Conor Walsh and Rob Wood discuss their visions for the future of bio-inspired soft robotics.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

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MAY 31, 2017

First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. We are excited to continue our safety mission by helping to support a safe evolution to a broader mobility future. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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MARCH 13, 2023

of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) We’re pushing for strong clean car standards because they put us on a path to a zero-emission future–one that’s better for all of us. (Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. Different robotic solutions of the future. MIT CSAIL ] This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots. Paper ] Thanks Samarth! SMART ITN ] 3 labs.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. Rus’ experience gives her a deep and nuanced perspective on robotics’ past and future, and we’re able to share a little bit of that with you here. So, drones can be dancers, too.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Both companies care immensely about solving urban transportation issues and the future of our cities, and we look forward to working with Lyft as we continue to improve our autonomous vehicle software system. By combining forces with Lyft in the US, we’ll be positioned to build the best passenger experience for self-driving cars.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Academic outreach is at the very foundation of IHMC’s mission, and needless to say.our entire organization is incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to continually inspire future generations. I’ll provide an overview of robotics at JPL and discuss some open problems that if addressed could further enhance future space robotics. [

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APRIL 4, 2024

Kripa Varanasi, cofounder of Alsym Energy and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, said: Battery storage systems can help provide firm capacity to the grid when the sun is not shining and wind is not blowing, but changing climates and hazardous environments demand flexible solutions that can meet a range of needs safely and economically.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A team at MIT has analyzed what has accounted for the extraordinary savings and found that by far the biggest single factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. Trancik (2021) “Determinants of lithium-ion battery technology cost decline” Energy Environ. —Jessika Trancik.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research.

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MARCH 24, 2021

However, attempts to quantify that cost decline has produced ambiguous and conflicting results that have hampered attempts to project the technology’s future or devise useful policies and research priorities. Trancik (2021) “Re-examining rates of lithium-ion battery technology improvement and cost decline” Energy Environ.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After a few years, it became clear that a lot of interesting progress in AI was happening in the context of robotics, because robotics is the nexus of where people in AI research are trying to get the full loop of perception, reasoning, planning, and action, and getting feedback from the environment. So that's the motivation.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

In the study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Warwick and MIT, and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the scientists measured the amount of hydrocarbons in a range of laboratory-grown cyanobacteria and used the data to estimate the amount produced in the oceans.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company’s autonomous and robotics technology system grew out of research conducted in MIT labs run by nuTonomy co-founders Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli. nuTonomy plans to work with government officials to expand the testing area to other parts of the city in the near future. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 16, 2023

The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. MIT ] The next frontier of technology is here. With innovation, safety, and efficiency in mind, Torc Robotics has engineered autonomous vehicles that are revolutionizing our present and future.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. —Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader of Open Innovation for Ford Research and Innovation.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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