Predictive analytics can already help prevent churn and anticipate equipment failures, but MIT has applied it to a new realm altogether: protecting ships at sea from so-called “rogue waves.” Also ...

Soft robots can be far more flexible than their rigid relatives, but their vast ranges of motion makes it hard to map the location of their body parts. A new algorithm could give them greater control ...

Mireta wants to translate slime mold’s superpowers into algorithms that might help improve transit times, alleviate congestion, and more. It is a yellow blob with no brain, yet some researchers ...