To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes. When you look at a photograph of a cat, chances are ...

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex tasks – it sounds like science fantasy. However, MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that brings shape-changing ...

In this step-by-step activity video, we hunt through magazines and newspapers for shapes. In this step-by-step activity video, we hunt through magazines and newspapers for shapes while talking to our ...