Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

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MANHASSET, NY — Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable City Laboratory will launch the SENSEable City Consortium, a major research initiative aimed at bringing together city and public ...

Executives have poured billions into artificial intelligence, only to discover that most of those projects never make it past the pilot stage or fail to deliver meaningful returns. A recent wave of ...

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...

The MIT SENSEable City Lab's Real Time Rome project aggregates data from cell phones to better understand urban dynamics in real time. By collecting location data from cell phone users, and speed and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a way for a computer to essentially design its own robotic body, based on the available parts and the local terrain. Dubbed RoboGrammar, the system knows what ...