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Lidar Chips
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Traditional lidar sensors are expensive, bulky systems with mechanical parts that degrade over time. A new chip-based design from researchers in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics could enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts.
Celebrating dorm-to-market social entrepreneurship at MIT
At the 25th IDEAS Social Innovation Incubator Showcase and Awards, 21 student-led ventures joined 1,200 alumni-led ventures tackling the world’s most pressing problems through social entrepreneurship.
At MIT, a new way to map the movement of our hands // Cambridge Day
Researchers in Professor Xuanhe Zhao’s lab developed an ultrasound wristband that can map movements of the human body using sound waves, part of the group’s work aimed at changing “how we gather information from inside the body.” Says Zhao: “The mission of my lab is really merging humans with machines and AI. We believe there’s a huge opportunity [with] this interface.”
