Research

Impact Areas

Lead

John Leonard

Research Group

Sensing, Learning and Inference

We develop scalable algorithms for analysis of complex, high-dimensional data.

John Fisher

Leads

John Fisher

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Big Data

Internet of Things

Lead

John Fisher

Community of Research

Vertical AI Community of Research

This CoR takes a unified approach to cover the full range of research areas required for success in artificial intelligence, including hardware, foundations, software systems, and applications.

Martin Rinard

Leads

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Martin Rinard

7 Project Results

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Computation Structures Group

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Our goal is to develop a socially intelligent team coacher agent that helps humans communicate, strategize, and work together efficiently.

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Brian Williams

Boris Katz

Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Health Care

Wireless

Project

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

A system that can help you to design our own drone!

Tao Du

Leads

Tao Du

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Tao Du

Project

Drones that Drive

Multi-robot path planning for robot swarms that can both fly and drive

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Project

Geometry in Large-Scale Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Data often has geometric structure which can enable better inference; this project aims to scale up geometry-aware techniques for use in machine learning settings with lots of data, so that this structure may be utilized in practice.

Justin Solomon

Stefanie Jegelka

Leads

Justin Solomon

Stefanie Jegelka

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Big Data

Internet of Things

Justin Solomon

Stefanie Jegelka

Project

Printable Hydraulics

Printable Hydraulics allows fluid-actuated robots to be automatically fabricated using 3D printers.

Youbin Kim

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Youbin Kim

Project

Robot Compiler

Human-Computer Interaction

The Robot Compiler allows non-engineering users to rapidly fabricate customized robots, facilitating the proliferation of robots in everyday life. It thereby marks an important step towards the realization of personal robots that have captured imaginations for decades.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Andrew Spielberg

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Education

Internet of Things

Project

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

Human-Computer Interaction

What if we could control robots more intuitively, using just hand gestures and brainwaves?

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

6 People Results

Noam Buckman

Graduate Student

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

E nbuckman@mit.edu

Member

Sensorized Soft Electric Hands with Handed Shearing Auxetics

Self-Driving Vehicles

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

Lillian Chin

Graduate Student

E ltchin@mit.edu

Lead

Member