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Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine

A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.

May 3, 2023

Two by two grid featuring soft robotic animal designs. One resembles a manatee, one looks like a bear, another suggests a shark, and the last looks like a caterpillar

Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

May 2, 2023

A moderator and seven MIT faculty members sit on stage. Professor Anne White, in the center, is speaking while the others look on.

MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

Ahead of the Institute’s presidential inauguration, panelists describe advances in their research and how these discoveries are being deployed to benefit the public.

May 1, 2023

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President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea visits MIT

A campus summit with the leader and his delegation centered around dialogue on biotechnology and innovation ecosystems.

April 28, 2023

Three red-and-white cubes with mosaic squares lie diagonally against a gradient gray background. The top left cube shows a gray square at corner. The bottom cube has an outer white glow and is not blurred.

Deep-learning system explores materials’ interiors from the outside

A new method could provide detailed information about internal structures, voids, and cracks, based solely on data about exterior conditions.

April 28, 2023

Jiadi Zhu wears gloves while holding an octagon-shaped plastic case containing 8-inch wafer. On right, a furnace resembling a deep freezer sits in glass casing.

MIT engineers “grow” atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips

A new low-temperature growth and fabrication technology allows the integration of 2D materials directly onto a silicon circuit, which could lead to denser and more powerful chips.

April 27, 2023

A woman looks at a rendering of a room on her laptop, with other screens showing room views floating around the laptop.

Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture

The technology of MIT alumni-founded Hosta a.i. creates detailed property assessments from photos.

April 21, 2023

Against an orange background, a neural network is made with white lines and circular nodes. The nodes each have a colorful protein design inside of them. Some proteins are twisting and tightly curled like ringlets while others are more like a pasta noodle.

AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets

These tunable proteins could be used to create new materials with specific mechanical properties, like toughness or flexibility.

April 20, 2023

A man seen from behind walks down a brick pathway, followed in the air by a black quadcopter drone

Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks

MIT researchers exhibit a new advancement in autonomous drone navigation, using brain-inspired liquid neural networks that excel in out-of-distribution scenarios.

April 19, 2023

Phillip Isola, Daniela Rus, Armando Solar-Lezama, and Jacob Andreas pose arm-in-arm against an amber background

MIT CSAIL researchers discuss frontiers of generative AI

Experts convene to peek under the hood of AI-generated code, language, and images as well as its capabilities, limitations, and future impact.

April 12, 2023

Understanding our place in the universe

Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Brian Nord trains machines to explore the cosmos and fights for equity in research.

April 12, 2023

Against a blue sky, the book cover says, “Yossi Sheffi, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply chains, A.I., and the Future of Work.” On the bottom of the book is an image of the Earth with conveyor belt of cardboard boxes, plus a looming robot. On the right side of the image is a portrait of Sheffi.

3 Questions: Yossi Sheffi on AI and the future of the supply chain

In a new book, the founder of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics examines how increasingly automated industries can sustain jobs.

April 11, 2023

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Jacob Andreas and Mingda Li honored with Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching

Award is given each year by the School of Engineering to an outstanding educator up for promotion to associate professor without tenure.

April 3, 2023

A four-legged, dog-like robot stands in front of a soccer ball against an amber background. Behind it, a mirror shows an overhead view of the robot.

A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains

“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.

April 3, 2023

A large, 3D gray mass binding to smaller molecules in various colors in one spot on the right side.

Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models

MIT researchers built DiffDock, a model that may one day be able to find new drugs faster than traditional methods and reduce the potential for adverse side effects.

March 31, 2023

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