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Robots learn to use their hands

Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning A video of the latest research by Peter Florence, Lucas Manuelli, Russ Tedrake of MIT’s CSAIL lab. It was republished by MIT. Having robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, […]

Filed Under: Sketchbook, Video Tagged With: education, MIT, research, robotics, technology

Behind the scenes of a contact tracing study

Proximity Pilot Contact Tracing App A video produced for Julie Shah’s team and their study of a contact tracing app, Proximity Pilot. It is long and descriptive because it was designed for the longform TEDxMIT. This talk describes the launch of a study on the effectiveness of digital contact tracing and aims to mature new […]

Filed Under: Sketchbook, Video Tagged With: bluetooth, Covid-19, MIT, research, technology