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MIT engineers develop system to help autonomous vehicles see around corners; adapting ShadowCam

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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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Barrier Breaker Shapes Aerospace Engineering's Future

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Harris, born in 1941 in Richmond, Virginia, grew up during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement and faced an environment fraught with challenges. Today, Harris is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and heads the school’s Hypersonic Research Laboratory. Army approached MIT to help it solve a problem.

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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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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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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Swiss-Mile ] OTTO Lifter drives nimbly in crowded and dynamic environments and improves safety in warehouses and facilities. This paper presents a goal-conditioned dual-action deep imitation learning (DIL) which can learn dexterous manipulation skills using human demonstration data. With the same kind of great commentary, of course.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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THE EYE [ Atonaton ] Off-road terrain presents unique challenges for autonomous driving: steep slopes, ditches, rocks, vegetation, and ever-changing weather conditions. MIT ] Half a century since the concept of a cyborg was introduced, digital cyborgs, enabled by the spread of wearable robotics, are the focus of much research in recent times.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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In that period, CSRC has launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.