A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually.
For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own “sensorized” skin.
Founded by CEO Jon Garrity ’11 and CTO Will Vega-Brown ’11, SM ’13, Tagup is currently being used by energy companies to monitor approximately 60,000 pieces of equipment around North America and Europe.
“I never thought about the kilowatt-hours I was using. But this hackathon gave me a chance to look at my carbon footprint and find ways to trade a small amount of model accuracy for big energy savings,” says Mohammad Haft-Javaherian.
