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Posts tagged as “Robotics”

The elephant in the server room

Suppose you would like to know mortality rates for women during childbirth, by country, around the world. Where would you look? One option is the…

“Doing machine learning the right way”

The work of MIT computer scientist Aleksander Madry is fueled by one core mission: “doing machine learning the right way.” Madry’s research centers largely on…

Showing robots how to do your chores

Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated robots that can learn…

A new model of vision

When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these richly detailed representations of…

Integrating electronics onto physical prototypes

MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products. The aim is…

Demystifying the world of deep networks

Introductory statistics courses teach us that, when fitting a model to some data, we should have more data than free parameters to avoid the danger…