Researchers at MIT’s Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices. These “plug-and-play” devices, which require little expertise…
Month: May 2018
Robot Teaches Itself How to Dress People
More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially help, but cloth and the human body are complex. To…
Device makes clean water with paper and sunlight
The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago. Now, University at Buffalo…
MIT Builds a Self-Driving Car for Unmapped Country Roads
Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but MIT CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors. MapLite combines simple GPS data that you’d find on Google Maps with a…
Android P – Shush Gesture to activate ‘Do Not Disturb’ Mode easily
Google announced the new features of its upcoming android Operating System “Android P” at its annual developers conference Google I/O 2018. Shush is a new gesture to activate Do Not Disturb. By…