Machines
Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or embedded sensors — in fact, the hand contains none. Instead, the entire system relies on a single camera that watches the robot’s…
Helping machines understand visual content with AI
Data should drive every decision a modern business makes. But most businesses have a massive blind spot: They don’t know what’s happening in their visual data. Coactive is working to change that. The company, founded by Cody Coleman ’13, MEng ’15 and William Gaviria Rojas ’13, has created an artificial intelligence-powered platform that can make sense…
WIRED Tested Dozens of Espresso Machines. These Are the 8 Best
How We Tested Espresso Machines AccordionItemContainerButton Over the past decade, WIRED has tested dozens of espresso makers to find our favorites. The process, in part, is simple. We brew a whole lot of coffee. I’ve written about coffee for more than a decade on both the East and West Coasts, including my hometown coffee mecca…
Intuitive Machines Lander Touches Down on Moon, But Lands Wonky
Commercial moon missions with NASA connections are all the rage right now. Firefly Aerospace stuck the lunar landing of its Blue Ghost mission on March 2. Intuitive Machines was hoping for a similar success with its IM-2 mission Thursday morning. The Athena lander made it to the surface of the moon, but not everything went…