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Detecting and Mapping Transparent or Mirror-like Surfaces with Lidar

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Tsung-Han Lin · Connor Henley
#robotics #computer vision #augmented reality +1 more
Project Research

Emotion Navigation

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

in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Neska Elhaouij · Rosalind W. Picard +10 more
#interfaces #affective computing #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#environment #transportation #urban planning +1 more
Project Research

Autonomous micro-mobility study for food delivery

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Ainhoa Genua Cervino · Naroa Coretti Sánchez +2 more
#data #environment #transportation +3 more
Project Research

Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Kushagra Tiwary · Nikhil Behari +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Inigo Martinez Lopez +1 more
#robotics #design #data +7 more
Project Research

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

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

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez
#robotics #design #energy +9 more
Project Research

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 batt…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Project Research

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 orde…

in City Science · Human Dynamics
Arnaud Grignard · Eduardo Castello Ferrer +3 more
#urban planning #blockchain #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

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

Can drones find missing items? Every year, companies lose billions of dollars due to misplaced items and faulty inventory records in their …

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Yunfei Ma +1 more
#systems #networking #autonomous vehicles

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