Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks — but it turns out that just moving them through space without colliding with objects is more difficult than it sounds.

CSAIL will be launching a new initiative focused on machine learning applications. MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL, or “MLA@CSAIL”, will focus on current challenges in machine learning to prepare industry members for digital transformation in their workplaces.

Stefanie Mueller leads the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. In her work, she develops novel hardware and software systems that advance personal fabrication technologies.

It can be hard to keep track of all the numbers, statistics, and charts swirling around the internet -- we’re inundated with information that can be rapidly disseminated and dissected. To carve through some of the sludge, here’s a selected highlight of recent computer science related efforts to fight COVID-19. 

A group of researchers from CSAIL came up with SprayableTech, a system that lets users create room-sized interactive surfaces with sensors and displays.

View the annual list from MIT Technology Review that includes technologies that "will make a real difference in solving important problems."

Given that our smartphones have largely become appendages over the last decade, it’s hard to imagine that ten years ago there was no Instagram, Uber, TikTok or Tinder. The ways we move, shop, eat and communicate continue to evolve thanks to the technologies we use. It can be easy to forget how quickly things have changed - so let’s turn back the clocks and reminisce about some of the computing breakthroughs that have transformed our lives in the ’10s.