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Observing the world’s oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) — marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide through the ocean without any real-time input from human operators. Critical questions that AUVs can help to answer are where, when, an...
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat. In regions of high wind, the robot is designed to stay aloft, much like its avian counterpart. Where there are calmer winds, the robot...
MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape. Some of the biggest companies in the world are spending billions in the race to develop self-driving vehicles that can go anywhere. Meanwhile, Optimus Ride, a startup out of MIT, is alre...
New System Senses Tiny Changes in Shadows to Help Autonomous Vehicles See Around Corners
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Helping autonomous vehicles see around corners: By sensing tiny changes in shadows, a new system identifies approaching objects that may cause a collision. To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to deter...
Autonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea: Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most valuable sampling spots in uncharted waters. An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) efficiently sniffs out the most scie...
The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilometers (3,700 miles) from the south pole; unfortunately, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with their lander shortly before the scheduled touchdown (September 7 in India, September 6 in th...
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have found that they can cause the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response to “phantom” images projected on a road or billboard. In a new research paper...
Environmental Trade-Offs of Autonomous Vehicles: Convenience Will Likely Come at a Cost
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A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that while autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise greater convenience and accessibility, they could lead to significant environmental costs if not properly managed. Optimistic predictions expect reliable autonomous vehicles to be commercially ava...
Color-Sorting Metalenses Boost Imaging Sensitivity for Smartphones and Autonomous Vehicles
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Technology advance enables filter-free imaging sensors that are poised to improve low-light and fast imaging for smartphones and autonomous vehicles. Researchers have shown that newly designed pixel-scale metasurface lenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to manipulate light — can be used to...
Charting a Safe Course for an Autonomous Robot Through a Highly Uncertain Environment
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A new technique has been developed to safely guide an autonomous robot without knowledge of its environmental conditions or the size, shape, or location of obstacles it might encounter. An autonomous spacecraft exploring the far reaches of the cosmos descends through the atmosphere of a remote exopl...
A new AI system could improve image quality in video streaming or help autonomous vehicles identify road hazards in real-time. MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have introduced EfficientViT, a computer vision model that speeds up real-time semantic segmentation in high-resolution images, opt...
Air taxis may become an important part of the U.S. transportation ecosystem, quickly carrying people relatively short distances – and eventually, some may fly without a pilot aboard. NASA is helping prepare for that future with research to ensure that fully autonomous flight technology is safe. Rese...
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