Forget Ikea, MIT’s robotic carpenters help you create your own furniture
Ikea furniture is cheap, relatively easy to assemble, and even easier to replace. But what if you could design and manufacture pieces of furniture customized …
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MIT just created living plants that glow like a lamp, and could grow glowing trees to replace streetlights
The modern world has been reinventing our relationship with energy for some time now. Cars are turning away from fossil fuels and relying ever more …
Complex new artificial muscles could let a duck lift an entire car
Soft robots that look like complex Origami structures could one day be used in a variety of fields for all sorts of different tasks, including …
Researchers develop method to completely fool AI image recognition, turn turtles into rifles
Advancements in AI are happening at a breakneck pace, and they have been for some time now, but computers aren’t infallible. Some very interesting new …
Google and MIT just invented a way to improve your photos before you even take them
Apps like Camera+, Instagram and Snapchat have made it fairly easy to turn decent mobile photos into something a bit more appealing to the eye, …
MIT’s new app uses AI to look at food and tell you the recipe
If you’ve been following HBO’s hilarious Silicon Valley sitcom, then you’ll instantly giggle when you see MIT’s new food app in action. One of the …
MIT researchers give the white cane used by the visually impaired a high-tech update
The iconic white cane has helped provide empowerment and mobility for generations of visually impaired people and has now received a high-tech update courtesy of …
MIT is developing futuristic self-driving cars that can fly you out of traffic
Drones can’t stay up in the air for too long because they’re limited by battery life. Self-driving cars, on the other hand, are limited by …
Robots can teach new skills to other robots, which is in no way terrifying
All those movies about robots taking over the world and destroying mankind put some terrifying thoughts into our minds. What if that’ll actually happen in …
MIT invented a robot that can 3D-print an entire building
3D printing has slowly gone from a curious novelty to a totally viable option for creating all kinds of useful things, from chocolate to athletic shoes, …
MIT’s new AI understands the hardest part of human language
Voice-based artificial intelligence assistants can understand human speech better than ever. But while AI can decipher our words and context to deliver fast results and …
MIT just invented one of the strongest, lightest materials known to man
The bright minds at MIT are always cooking up new technologies, so to hear that they invented a new material that’s stronger than steel isn’t …
MIT: 3,000 Uber and Lyft cars could completely replace all New York City taxis
A new study from the MIT found that a fleet of 3,000 four-passenger ride-sharing cars from services like Uber and Lyft could virtually displace the …
MIT researchers came up with a way to make Wi-Fi 10 times faster
We’ve all been there: You find yourself at a massive public event, whether it be a concert, a sporting event or a political rally and …
This robotic bee uses static electricity to stick to surfaces
Remember the MIT’s RoboBee? The initiative kicked off a couple of years ago, aiming to fix a major problem that we currently have: the bee …
MIT figured out how to secure Wi-Fi without passwords
PC and smartphone users tend to have a love-hate relationship with wireless networks. It’s great to have Wi-Fi Internet at home, at the office, and in …
iPhones of the future might be powered by sugar
While some scientists from MIT are busy reinventing intersections and looking at ways to completely remove traffic lights, others are studying ways to create better …
MIT thinks it can create a world without traffic lights
In addition to increasing safety on the road, self-driving cars might help us achieve something else: speed up daily commutes by removing the need for stoplights. …
New tech from MIT could make all web pages load 34% faster
When it comes to the Internet, we’re all incredibly impatient. It doesn’t matter that we had to wait several minutes for a single web page …
New technology offers the promise of never-ending smartphone batteries
Remember in the Matrix movies how humanity in the future was reduced to serving as the batteries for powerful and intelligent machines? Well, some researchers at …
MIT researchers have figured out how to make solar cells with old car batteries
Here’s a clever technological breakthrough that could help the environment in two ways. MIT announced this week that some of its researchers have figured out …
MIT researchers create ‘untraceable’ text messaging that’s even more secure than Tor
Given recent news that popular online anonymity tool Tor might not be as completely secure as many of us had assumed, we were intrigued to see …
MIT built a snake-like robot that can morph into a phone and a smartwatch
Over the past several years, the touchscreen interface has increasingly become one of the most common ways that we interact with our electronic devices. Our …
MIT scientists can see through walls and identify people with new wireless device
Leave it to the brilliant minds at MIT to come up with a device so technologically advanced that you’re not quite sure if you should …
Video: MIT’s robotic cheetah is the scariest thing you’ll see all day
The stuff that’s going on in the robotics world these days is absolutely mind blowing. Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the …
Video: Watch this incredible robotic cheetah run around untethered
Remember Boston Dynamics’ robot cheetah that can run at speeds topping 28 mph on a treadmill indoors, and which now belongs to Google? Well, that’s not …
Future spies might not need to hear you to understand what you’re saying
Being able to extract audio from a soundless visual recording is something that intelligence agencies will likely one day use – if they don’t already do …
Incredible video shows MIT researchers making fresh water out of fog in the middle of a desert
Living in the desert no longer has to mean being parched for drinking water. MIT has posted a video this month that shows how some …
Video: Awesome tiny wearable gadget could help the blind read
FingerReader is the name of a wearable gadget that could help visually impaired people read printed text in books and even on electronic devices, thus …
Video: New 3D motion-tracking system sees you through walls
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a radar-like 3D motion-tracking system that can spot body movement through walls, Engadget …
