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We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...
In our published research findings we describe validation of novel machine learning architectures, with automated learning and prediction...
Our published research findings listed below describe new paradigms for low-cost biomarker imaging and clinical diagnoses by obviating th...
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
Pharmaceutical clinical development is on the verge of a major revolution due to the convergence of large new data sources, the computing...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Trying to catch up to a rapidly advancing technology, government agencies, industry, and academia are looking for guidance and best pract...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...
We present Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman was inspired by the fact that the data used to teach a machine learning algorithm ...
The Humanizing AI in Law (HAL) project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due-pro...
Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
This project will support social scientists, philosophers, and policy and legal scholars who undertake research that aims to impact how a...
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with huma...
There are over one million registered charities in the United States alone, and many more worldwide. How do you choose among them? M...
Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The i...
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
Opinion aggregation on social media uses various mechanisms, such as "Likes" or thumbs-up/-down, which handle a single item at a time. I...
There is a deep fear that human jobs will be replaced by AI. Rather than racing against the machines, our aim is to show that a human-AI ...
The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotio...
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As pl...