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Affordable autonomous lightweight personal mobility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Self-driving cars and micro-mobility services are among the most important trends in the mobility landscape. While robo-taxi services are still in the pilot phase, residents in many cities today are adopting micro-mobility ...
Forecasting mental distress using healthcare claims data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Recently, depression rates have reached record levels in the US: 7.1% of adults in the US had at least one major depressive episode in 2015 and an estimated 7 million American adults aged 65 and older experience depression. ...
Making musical magic live : inventing modern production technology for human-centric music performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Fifty-two years ago, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band redefined what it meant to make a record album. The Beatles revolutionized the recording process using technology to achieve completely unprecedented sounds ...
Sensor networks for experience and ecology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Wetlands are critically important ecosystems, providing numerous benefits to the global environment. As cranberry farms in southeastern Massachusetts come out of production, many are undergoing active restoration with the ...
Design and evaluation of a reaction-force series elastic actuator configurable as biomimetic powered ankle and knee prostheses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
All commercial leg powered prostheses have been, up to this point, a one-size fits-all design, and of those existing systems, none has yet managed to fully achieve biological walking range of motion, torque and power. Yet, ...
Resynthesizing volumetric soundscapes : low-rank subspace methods for soundfield estimation and reconstruction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling space and creating a continuous field through which a listener moves. Despite a long ...
Polarization and toxicity in political discourse online
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The web and social media promised to fundamentally change the public sphere by democratizing access to information and lowering barriers for participation in public discourse. While some of these expectations have been ...
Robust genome editing with broad-targeting CRISPR enzymes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Programmable CRISPR enzymes are powerful and versatile tools for genome editing. They, however, require a specific protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) flanking the target site, which constrains the accessible sequence space ...
Discrete mechanical metamaterials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Digital fabrication enables complex designs to be realized with improved speed, precision, and cost compared to manual techniques. Additive manufacturing, for example, is one of the leading methods for rapid prototyping ...
Biologically encoded augmented reality : multiplexing perceptual bandwidths
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Information floods the center of our visual field and often saturates the focus of our attention, yet there are parallel channels constantly and unconsciously processing our environment. Using sensory plasticity as a medium ...