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, […]
Professor Ali Mohamed Zaki and the Corona Virus
A portrait of Professor Ali Mohamed Zaki in his office in Cairo, Egypt on March 15 . Dr. Zaki diagnosed the first patient with a strain of the Corona Virus in Saudi Arabia. He was then fired for announcing it himself, but the information was later used to help diagnose another patient in the UK.
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 […]