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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
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Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view

This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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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…
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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…
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Emotion Navigation

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

In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers o…
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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…
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Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
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Could self-driving bikes change how we use cities?

Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
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Using reflections to see the world from new points of view

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction
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MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems

Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, Luis Alonso Pastor, and Kent Larson. "Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems." 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020.
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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…
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An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
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LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modular …
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Ethics

Ethics Initiative
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Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …
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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.
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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…
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Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.
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BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Marrocco, L., Ferrer, E. C., Bucchiarone, A., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Larson, K., & Pentland, A. (2018, July). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (pp. 144-162). Springer, Cham.
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Your (future) car’s moral compass

How does the public think autonomous vehicles should resolve moral trade-offs? Can we use their responses to build a new moral compass?
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A Future-Forward Proposal for a System of Streets and Autonomous Vehicles

ABSTRACT   The impending introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has posed regulatory and ethical questions regarding how they …
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A study on driverless-car ethics offers a troubling look into our values

Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.
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Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
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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 …
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Clearly Complex

A report from the Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (STEAV).