Larry Hardesty

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Novel Optical Sensor Enables Robot to Grasp USB Plug

Researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable draped freely over a hook and insert it into a USB port.

22 Sep 2014

Researchers Reconstruct Audio from Video Samples

Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.

5 Aug 2014

New Algorithms May Help Achieve Maximal Efficiency in Wireless Networks

Now that the Internet’s basic protocols are more than 30 years old, network scientists are increasingly turning their attention to ad hoc networks — communications networks set up, on the fly, by wireless devices — where unsolved problems still abound.

7 Aug 2013