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Looking beyond smart cities

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to ba...

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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

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An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.

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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...

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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...

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LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...

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Ethics

Ethics Initiative

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Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving...

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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.

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Emotion Navigation

Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...

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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...

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Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.

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BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Marrocco, L., Ferrer, E. C., Bucchiarone, A., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Larson, K., & Pentland, A. (2018, July). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (pp. 144-162). Springer, Cham.

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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

An underwater navigation system powered by sound

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

Moral Machine

LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

Emotion Navigation

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Your (future) car’s moral compass

A Future-Forward Proposal for a System of Streets and Autonomous Vehicles

A study on driverless-car ethics offers a troubling look into our values

Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs

Clearly Complex