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MIT Develops New 3D Printer Design System
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Researchers demonstrate their scanning technique, with a user holding a monopod-mounted Kinect at close range from a scanning T-Rex skull.
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MIT Makes Prototype to Scan T-Rex Skull
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A GelSight sensor attached to a robot's gripper enables the robot to determine precisely where it has grasped a small screwdriver, removing it from and inserting it back into a slot, even when the gripper screens the screwdriver from the robot's camera.
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MIT Makes Shape-Shifting Noodles
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Researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. With power savings of 90 to 99 percent, it could make voice control practical for relatively simple electronic devices.
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Voice Control for All Electronics
Automatic speech recognition is on the verge of becoming your primary way to interact with devices.
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An autonomous mobility scooter and related software were designed by researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).
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MIT Designs Autonomous Scooter
Think about it, an impaired user could take the scooter down the hall, take an autonomous golf cart to the parking lot, and pick up an autonomous car.
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'Morphing' Wing New Twist in Plane Manufacturing
New wing architecture could simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption.
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Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions.
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Beavers and sea otters lack the thick layer of blubber that insulates walruses and whales. And yet these small, semiaquatic mammals can keep warm and even dry while diving, by trapping warm pockets of air in dense layers of fur. Inspired by these fuzzy swimmers, MIT engineers have now fabricated fur-like, rubbery pelts and used them to identify a mechanism by which air is trapped between individual hairs when the pelts are plunged into liquid.
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