Plenty of companies have demoed home robots, but few, if any, have actually been released. The truth is that even the most advanced robots aren't very good at interacting with objects and environments ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has introduced an innovative algorithm that can learn language solely by watching videos. Mark Hamilton, a PhD student in electrical engineering and ...

We're much better at following weather patterns today than a couple hundred years ago, but we're still relatively green when predicting extreme weather. Today's community-specific extreme weather ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) has advanced significantly in fields like robotics, medicine, and even traffic management. Despite these strides, many RL models struggle when faced with even slight ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These ...

Predictive analytics can already help prevent churn and anticipate equipment failures, but MIT has applied it to a new realm altogether: protecting ships at sea from so-called “rogue waves.” Also ...

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can quickly compute in milliseconds the likelihood of a vehicle running a red light based on its rate of deceleration as it approaches the intersection ...