TAG: MIT

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Using contact tracing and GPS to fight spread of COVID-19

June 3, 2020

Tracing Location Contact tracing can help stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It involves tracking the movement […]


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An AI model developed at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute that uses only satellite imagery to automatically tag road features in digital maps could improve GPS navigation, especially in countries with limited map data. (Image: Google Maps/MIT News)

AI helps create street maps from satellite imagery

March 5, 2020

Creating detailed street maps and keeping them updated is an expensive and time-consuming task performed mostly by large […]


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In MIT project, drones map without GPS

January 9, 2019

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented a project at the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics […]


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Draper equips UAVs with vision for GPS-denied navigation

August 7, 2017

A team from Draper and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed advanced vision-aided navigation techniques for […]


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