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Assistant Director of the MIT-Boston University Startup Law Clinic, Samuel Taylor, right, speaks to participants.

MIT-BU law clinics help students bring innovations into the world

Growing program provides free legal services to student entrepreneurs and researchers, while giving law students practical experience.

July 16, 2020

The system uses a pair of soft robotic grippers with high-resolution tactile sensors to successfully manipulate freely moving cables.

Letting robots manipulate cables

Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT can handle cables with unprecedented dexterity.

July 13, 2020

“When people are consuming news on social media, their inclination to share that news with others interferes with their ability to assess its accuracy, according to a new study co-authored by MIT researchers.”

Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation

Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem.

July 9, 2020

The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19

The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in Covid-19 research.

June 29, 2020

In tests, the CSAIL team's robot could disinfect a 4,000-square-foot space in the food bank's warehouse in just half an hour.

CSAIL robot disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank

Using UV-C light, the system can disinfect a warehouse floor in half an hour — and could one day be employed in grocery stores, schools, and other spaces.

June 28, 2020

The startup macro-eyes is bringing new techniques in machine learning and artificial intelligence to global health problems like vaccine delivery and patient scheduling with its Connected Health AI Network (CHAIN).

Improving global health equity by helping clinics do more with less

The startup macro-eyes uses artificial intelligence to improve vaccine delivery and patient scheduling.

June 25, 2020

Michael Hawley in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2001

Michael Hawley, former professor of media arts and sciences, dies at 58

A modern-day Renaissance man, Hawley pioneered the internet of things, won the Van Cliburn amateur piano competition, and published the world’s largest book.

June 25, 2020

Researchers use skeletal keypoint data to match the movements of musicians with the tempo of their part, allowing listeners to isolate similar-sounding instruments.

Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language

Music gesture artificial intelligence tool developed at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses body movements to isolate the sounds of individual instruments.

June 25, 2020

When keeping track of location a particular region of the brain, the lateral septum, pays special attention to where the reward is located, compared to another region, the hippocampus, that tracks location without that same bias.

Like a treasure map, brain region emphasizes reward location

The lateral septum encodes spatial information with a special emphasis on where the reward lies.

June 23, 2020

Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab.

Cynthia Breazeal named Media Lab associate director

Expert in personal social robots will work with lab faculty and researchers to develop strategic research initiatives, and to explore new funding mechanisms.

June 19, 2020