[ad_1] Typically, GPS maps are created by big companies such as Google, which sends camera-strapped vehicles around a neighborhood to capture details on an area’s roads. And that’s worked pretty well so far, but it’s not without its limitations. For a start, it’s an expensive process, and keeping these maps up to date is time-consuming. […]
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MIT researchers use shadows to create a video of what happens off camera
[ad_1] In their experiment, the team filmed a pile of clutter. Off screen, someone created shadows by moving blocks and other objects. Their algorithm predicted the light transport, or the way light is expected to move in a scene, and compared that to the shadows. It then used that info to reconstruct the off-screen video. […]
MIT researchers teach autonomous cars how to deal with selfish drivers
[ad_1] New research from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) examines the problem of how a self-driving car can predict the behavior of other drivers on the road. This prediction requires a degree of social awareness which is difficult for machines, so the researchers took tools from social psychology to help the system […]
Watch a herd of MIT’s Mini Cheetah robots frolic in the fall leaves
[ad_1] Really, this illustrates how the Mini Cheetah project is moving forward. Now that the bot is proven to work, MIT is building a fleet to lend out examples for research projects. Demos like this are a step toward improvements in robot locomotion and other scientific pursuits. Whatever creepiness you see here could lead to […]
MIT and Ford help delivery robots navigate to your doorstep
[ad_1] The clues can be described in general terms, like “front door” or “garage.” As MIT explains, the robot might be trained to know that a driveway often leads to a sidewalk which likely leads to the front door. “Even if a robot is delivering a package to an environment it’s never been to, there […]
Block-like robots could assemble into emergency staircases
[ad_1] Each M-Block contains a flywheel inside that spins at 20,000 rpm, along with permanent magnets on each edge and face. That lets them leap, crawl and spin along using angular momentum, then clip onto other M-Block’s magnetically. As such, despite their seeming simplicity, they can band together to form structures and do tasks. “Other […]
MIT scientists develop a way to recover details from blurry images
[ad_1] When the model is used to process previously unseen low-quality images with blurred elements, it analyzes them to figure out what in the video could’ve produced the blur. It then synthesizes new images that combine data from both the clearer and blurry parts of a video. Say, you have footage of your yard with […]
BILL-E is a cute robot that builds structures block by block
[ad_1] The team calls their creation BILL-E, short for Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer — and, yes, it’s named after WALL-E. Each one looks like a small arm, with a hinge at the middle that gives the robot its signature inchworm-like gait. At both ends of the arm, BILL-E features tools for clamping down on […]
MIT-IBM developed a faster way to train video recognition AI
[ad_1] The trick is in shifting how video recognition models view time. Current models encode the passage of time in a sequence of images, which creates bigger, computationally-intensive models. The MIT-IBM researchers designed a temporal shift module, which gives the model a sense of time passing without explicitly representing it. In tests, the method was […]
GNU founder Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, Free Software Foundation
[ad_1] Richard M. Stallman has resigned as FSF president and from the board of directors: https://t.co/4Z8kyrgBuv — Free Software Fndn. (@fsf) September 17, 2019 This comes after growing calls for his removal, most recently tied to Stallman’s statements in an MIT email thread about Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, and what he called the “injustice” of […]