MIT researchers develop new display system with flying pixels
Imagine that pixels could fly out of your computer screen and create an immersive, luminous cloud capable of displaying digital information in three-dimensional space. This is the vision beyond...
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A plane that lands like a bird An innovative control system allows a foam glider to touch down on a perch or a wire like a pet parakeet. Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office Everyone knows what it’s like...
View ArticleSolar cells copy nature to grow and self heal
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT...
View ArticleMIT SLAM quad using Kinect
MIT drone makes a map of a room in real time using an X Box Kinect and is able to navigate through it. All calculations performed on board the multicopter. Students have developed a real-time visual...
View ArticleMIT sUAS flying like birds
MIT news reports Abby Abazorius CSAI Multidisciplinary university research initiative, led by a CSAIL research, is developing a bird-sized UAV. Despite their reputation as urban pests, pigeons traverse...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
Robert Lemos from MIT technology review reports a hacking task for a simple platform. Researchers are developing hacking drones that could build a wireless botnet or track someone via cell phone. The...
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Meet the Drone That’s Guiding New Students Around MIT This Fall
KELSEY CAMPBELL-DOLLAGHAN – Navigating a new campus is all part of the nostalgic movie montage that is freshman year of college. The changing leaves! The quaint Gothic architecture! The… drone tour...
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Drones that drive from MIT CSAIL
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars. Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature — many...
View ArticleMIT students build an unmanned aircraft for MIT Lincoln Laboratory research
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has a new test asset. The aircraft is 6.5 feet long, has a wing span of 10 feet, is made of nonreflective, nonmetallic composites, weighs 48 pounds and can carry a 5-pound...
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