A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometry

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek mathematician Euclid, known to many as the father of…

Taking on giants: a QA with robotic vacuum startup Matic’s co-founder Mehul Nariyawala

We came to conclusion that the entire space of indoor robotics is built a bit upside…

Edge compute maker SIMA.ai hires former AWS exec as new CBO. Read our exclusive interview.

San Jose-based edge computing startup SiMa.ai has made waves recently with the release of Palette Edgematic,…

To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds

ChatGPT and other deep generative models are proving to be uncanny mimics. These AI supermodels can…

Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture

Property assessments sit at the center of home appraisals, insurance claims, renovation projects, and a number…

Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving

Hyper-realistic virtual worlds have been heralded as the best driving schools for autonomous vehicles (AVs), since…

Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence

What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions…

StructionSite raises $10 million to apply AI to construction project management

StructionSite, a startup developing a platform that monitors construction sites using computer vision, has raised $10…

360-degree transparency for construction sites made simple

MIT spinoff OpenSpace invented automated 360-degree video jobsite capture and mapping. “It’s not exactly an amazing…

Retrofitting MIT’s deep learning “boot camp” for the virtual world

Deep learning is advancing at lightning speed, and Alexander Amini ’17 and Ava Soleimany ’16 want…