MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

MIT's largest computer science and AI lab, and a long-time center of robotics research.

CSAIL is MIT's largest on-campus lab, formed on July 1, 2003 by merging the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the AI Lab. It is housed in the Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been directed by Daniela Rus since 2012. Robotics has long been one of its strengths: former director Rodney Brooks proposed the subsumption architecture and co-founded iRobot, and Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert also came out of CSAIL. Today's embodied-AI researchers regularly run into its output, including the Drake robotics toolbox from Russ Tedrake's group, Visual Dexterity and the Decision Diffuser from Pulkit Agrawal's group, and projects such as F3RM and the Heterogeneous Pre-trained Transformer (HPT).

ExampleHPT was proposed by CSAIL's Lirui Wang, Kaiming He, and collaborators at Meta FAIR, for joint pretraining across data from many different robots.

Also called

MIT CSAIL, CSAIL

Related

Drake · Subsumption Architecture · Boston Dynamics · F3RM · Heterogeneous Pre-trained Transformers · Visual Dexterity

Sources

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - Wikipedia