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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body +1 more
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Markus Elkatsha +19 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 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

Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Sayed Afzal · Waleed Akbar +5 more
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +14 more
Project Research

Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Tara Boroushaki · Maisy Lam +3 more
#virtual reality #computer vision #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Ahmed Allam · Jack Rademacher +6 more
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +10 more
Project Research

Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Fadel Adib · Ahmed Allam +4 more
#communications #ecology #networks +6 more
Project Research

FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Tara Boroushaki · Laura Dodds +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #health +6 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 #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +13 more
Project Research

Low-power wireless environmental sensor network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site w…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton
#ecology #environment #networks +2 more
Project Research

City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning + teaching #storytelling +3 more
Project Research

Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +8 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +5 more

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