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“A new computational imaging method could change how we view hidden information in scenes. Cameras and computers together can conquer some seriously stunning feats. Giving computers vision has helped us fight wildfires in California, understand complex and treacherous roads — and …
“Model registers “surprise” when objects in a scene do something unexpected, which could be used to build smarter AI. Humans have an early understanding of the laws of physical reality. Infants, for instance, hold expectations for how objects should move …
“New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say. MIT researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing a tenfold gain in its electrical conductivity. When incorporated into a type of high-efficiency solar …
“Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design that enables precise control of computing with magnetic waves — with no electricity needed. The advance …
“Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new model can help. MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally …
“Its extendable appendage can meander through tight spaces and then lift heavy loads. In today’s factories and warehouses, it’s not uncommon to see robots whizzing about, shuttling items or tools from one station to another. For the most …
“MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe. “He was here to dream, and I said ‘OK, let’s dream together,’” recalls Professor Mircea Dincă of his first encounter with Automobili Lamborghini Head of Development Riccardo …
“Device may enable “T-ray vision” and better wireless communication. Within the electromagnetic middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “T-ray vision.” Terahertz waves have frequencies higher than microwaves and lower than infrared and …
“Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter. Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure less orderly. Ice, for example, with its crystalline structure, melts to become …
“Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting. A molecule of ammonia, NH3, typically exists as an umbrella shape, with three hydrogen atoms fanned out in a nonplanar arrangement around a central nitrogen atom. This umbrella structure …