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Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
Digital Currency Initiative
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journ...
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as ...
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT. At t...
A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enfor...
In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to abse...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical forma...
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...
Measuring Cooperation at Scale
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...
A. L. Alfeo et al., "Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 4233-4240.
A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts ...
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
CE 2.0
Ultimate Media
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
Emerging Worlds
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)