MIT CSAIL are testing an intelligent carpet that accurately estimates three-dimensional human poses using only tactile sensors. The long-term goal is to use this system for health monitoring purposes, like rehabilitation and fall detection. Mashable is your source for the latest in tech, culture, and entertainment. Subscribe to Mashable: https://bit.ly/2DR64oM Watch …
Read More »We Tried Out New AI Tool That Lets You Doctor Photos
A team of researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed an AI tool that is using a neural network to generate images almost identical to real photographs that are being uploaded by its user. It then lets the user remove any unwanted objects from those pictures or replace them …
Read More »Soon You’ll Be Able to Lose to This Jenga-playing Robot
Robots, they might take your jobs tomorrow, and they could be beating you at Jenga sooner than that. MIT researchers have taught a robot the basics of the classic table-top game, and well it’s pretty impressive because they had to make it understand physics and the sense of touch. Bravo, …
Read More »The Robot that Recycles By Touch, Not by Sight
Developed by MIT CSAIL, RoCycle is a robot system that can automatically identify and sort recyclable materials using pressure sensors. The robot can differentiate between paper, metal, and plastic with an 85 per cent accuracy just by touching them. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE • …
Read More »You Can Control This Robot by Flexing Your Muscles
In a new paper published today, MIT CSAIL researchers Joseph DelPreto and Daniela Rus used electromyography sensors to make communication between a robot and a human a lot more intuitive without the need for verbal cues. Their system, dubbed RoboRaise, is able to mirror the user’s movements by detecting and …
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