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Enhanced safety in the sky through autonomous helicopters.

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Aircraft, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Graduate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), postdoctoral, School of Engineering, Startups, Transportation, Uncategorized, Venture Mentoring ServiceMay 13, 202434Views0Likes0Comments
After enduring a few frightening experiences while learning to fly helicopters, aerospace engineering PhD student, Haofeng Xu, was motivated to improve helicopter flight safety. In 2021, Xu founded Rotor Technologies, targeting the dangers prevalent in small private aircraft flights which lead to fatal accidents every year across the U.S. Rotor Technologies aims to retrofit existing…

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Improving safety in the sky with autonomous helicopters.

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Aircraft, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Graduate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), postdoctoral, School of Engineering, Startups, Transportation, Uncategorized, Venture Mentoring ServiceMay 12, 202439Views0Likes0Comments
Haofeng 'Hector' Xu's PhD studies in aviation and aerospace engineering at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics led him to train as a helicopter pilot. After encountering several near-miss situations, Xu decided to make helicopter flights safer and founded Rotor Technologies, Inc. in 2021. The company is retrofitting existing helicopters with sensors and software to…

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Improved safety in the skies through autonomous helicopters.

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Aircraft, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Graduate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), postdoctoral, School of Engineering, Startups, Transportation, Uncategorized, Venture Mentoring ServiceMay 12, 202432Views0Likes0Comments
In the quest to make helicopter flights safer, helicopter enthusiast and researcher, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, launched Rotor Technologies, an autonomous helicopter company in 2021. The basis for the company's operations was informed by Xu's knowledge of the concerning mortality rates in small, private aircraft that are often used for fighting fires, crop dusting and medical…

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Ensuring safer skies through autonomous helicopters

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Aircraft, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Graduate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), postdoctoral, School of Engineering, Startups, Transportation, Uncategorized, Venture Mentoring ServiceMay 11, 202432Views0Likes0Comments
After witnessing the potential dangers attached to helicopter flights, MIT PhD Hector (Haofeng) Xu founded Rotor Technologies, Inc. in 2021. The autonomous helicopter company aims to make helicopter flight safer by retrofitting existing helicopters with advanced sensors and software. This technology, in turn, removes the pilot from dangerous flights and widens the use of aviation. Across…

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The potential of App Inventor: Making mobile application creation accessible to everyone.

academics, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Global, History of MIT, History of science, K-12 education, Media Lab, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Online learning, Open access, Open Source, Programming, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, STEM education, teaching, UncategorizedMay 11, 202446Views0Likes0Comments
In June 2007, Apple introduced the first iPhone, featuring an App Store exclusively for approved applications. This decision, however, excluded educators from incorporating burgeoning mobile app development into education. Simultaneously, Hal Abelson, an MIT professor on sabbatical at Google, was contemplating Google's response to Apple's grip on the mobile software market. Both Abelson and Google…

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An improved method for regulating the transformation of flexible robots.

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Machine learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Research, Robotics, Robots, School of Engineering, UncategorizedMay 10, 202440Views0Likes0Comments
Scientists at MIT have been working on the design and control of a reconfigurable, squishy, soft robot, similar in nature to 'slime', that has potential applications in healthcare, wearable devices and industrial systems due to its ability to shape-shift to complete varying tasks. These soft robots currently only exist in labs and do not possess…

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CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman and President Sally Kornbluth engage in a conversation about the potential trends in AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Careers, Community, Ethics, History of science, Human-computer interaction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Invention, Labor and jobs, Machine learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT Sloan School of Management, President Sally Kornbluth, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, School of Science, Special events and guest speakers, Sustainability, Technology and society, UncategorizedMay 7, 202444Views0Likes0Comments

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Developing custom coding languages for effective visual artificial intelligence systems.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer graphics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Computer vision, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Faculty, Games, Information systems and technology, Machine learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Profile, Programming, Programming languages, School of Engineering, Uncategorized, VideoMay 4, 202440Views0Likes0Comments
Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley at the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a creator behind many innovative technologies used in photographic image processing and editing. Ragan-Kelley has contributed to the visual effects industry and was instrumental in designing the Halide programming language, a tool widely used in the photo editing sector. Ragan-Kelley,…

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HPI-MIT’s joint design research effort fosters formidable teams.

Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Cleaner industry, Climate change, Collaboration, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Cybersecurity, Design, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Environmental Solutions Initiative, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Machine learning, Manufacturing, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Sloan School of Management, Renewable energy, Research, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, Startups, Supply chains, UncategorizedMay 4, 202441Views0Likes0Comments
The recent ransomware attack on ChangeHealthcare underscores the disruptive nature of supply chain attacks. Such attacks are becoming increasingly prominent and often target large corporations through the small and medium-sized vendors in their corporate supply chains. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, are investigating different organizational…

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