System allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.

CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move

Machine learning system efficiently recognizes activities by observing how objects change in only a few key frames.

CSAIL wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs.

Given a video of a musical performance, CSAIL system can make specific instruments louder or softer

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory system enables people to correct robot mistakes on multiple-choice tasks.

Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”

Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.

Researchers design 3-D-printed, driverless boats that can provide transport and self-assemble into other floating structures.

For all the progress made in self-driving technologies, there still aren’t many places where they can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they’ve spent countless hours meticulously labeling the exact 3-D positions of lanes, curbs, off-ramps, and stop signs.

Every spring, engineering students from MIT and law students from Georgetown University overcome the distance between their institutions and disciplines in a semester-long flurry of virtual classroom meetings and late-night Google hangout sessions, culminating in presentations to policy experts in DC.

“RoadTracer” could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps

Made of silicone rubber, CSAIL’s “SoFi” could enable a closer study of aquatic life.

CSAIL's NanoMap system enables drones to avoid obstacles while flying at 20 miles per hour, by more deeply integrating sensing and control.

With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.

CSAIL system uses custom ink and ultraviolet light to repeatedly change an object's color.

This past year MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) was at the forefront of many diverse technological innovations covering a breadth of topics, from healthcare and cybersecurity to self-driving cars.

Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it, according to a new study from MIT and Harvard University.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good we humans are at understanding our surroundings. Without much thinking, we can describe objects and how they interact with each other.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good we humans are at understanding our surroundings. Without much thinking, we can describe objects and how they interact with each other.

Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds as researchers experiment with different materials and designs to allow machines to move in ways that mimic living organisms.

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “neural networks” are increasingly used in technologies like self-driving cars to be able to see and recognize objects. Such systems could even help with tasks like identifying explosives in airport security lines.

Even as robots become increasingly common, they remain incredibly difficult to make. From designing and modeling to fabricating and testing, the process is slow and costly: Even one small change can mean days or weeks of rethinking and revising important hardware. But what if there were a way to let non-experts craft different robotic designs — in one sitting?

We’ve all experienced two hugely frustrating things on YouTube: our video either suddenly gets pixelated, or it stops entirely to rebuffer. Both happen because of special algorithms that break videos into small chunks that load as you go. If your internet is slow, YouTube might make the next few seconds of video lower resolution to make sure you can still watch uninterrupted — hence, the pixelation. If you try to skip ahead to a part of the video that hasn’t loaded yet, your video has to stall in order to buffer that part.