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Four photos showing an assistive glove, a soft hand, and a pneumatic quadropedal robot. The fingers of the glove and hand look like bananas.

Soft assistive robotic wearables get a boost from rapid design tool

Scientists have created a design and fabrication tool for soft pneumatic actuators for integrated sensing, which can power personalized health care, smart homes, and gaming.

May 3, 2022

Computer-generated image of a robotic, articulated hand with red fingers

A one-up on motion capture

A new neural network approach captures the characteristics of a physical system’s dynamic motion from video, regardless of rendering configuration or image differences.

April 29, 2022

An abstract illustration of molecules and chemical structures on a dark blue background

Generating new molecules with graph grammar

An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers.

April 1, 2022

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Seventeen new professors join the MIT community, with research areas ranging from robotics and machine learning to health care and agriculture.

February 28, 2022

Three side-by-side copies of a shape consisting of multiple colored squares

A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots

“Evolution Gym” is a large-scale benchmark for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots that takes inspiration from nature and evolutionary processes.

December 7, 2021

graphic of computer, discovery, materials cycle

Accelerating the discovery of new materials for 3D printing

A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods.

October 15, 2021

Digital 3D illustration showing a black robot hand pushing a red cube atop a flat surface with a lavender-and-white checkerboard pattern

Contact-aware robot design

A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.

July 19, 2021

Photo of a person sitting cross-legged on the tactile carpet

Intelligent carpet gives insight into human poses

Tactical sensing carpet estimates 3D human poses without the use of cameras, and could improve health monitoring and smart homes.

June 24, 2021

A highly magnified color image of three different textile fibers, one red, two blue.

Tactile textiles sense movement via touch

By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities.

March 31, 2021

Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense

Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation.

March 22, 2021

Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time

A new method called tensor holography could enable the creation of holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, medical imaging, and more — and it can run on a smartphone.

March 10, 2021

Image of photorealistic objects — two bags, a ball, a can, a rock — displaying a variety of textures

Automating material-matching for movies and video games

Animators spend hours adding textures to objects. A new machine-learning system simplifies the process.

December 10, 2020

This 3D printer doesn’t gloss over the details

New system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface. The advance could aid fine art reproduction and the design of prosthetics.

December 2, 2020

robot designs generated with RoboGrammar.

Computer-aided creativity in robot design

MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types.

November 30, 2020

Electric power grids and energy infrastructure are becoming increasingly threatened as extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, occur with more frequency and strength. One of the eight novel energy research projects to recently win an MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund award will address these challenges by developing an approach for building hurricane-resilient smart grids.

MIT Energy Initiative awards eight seed fund grants for early-stage MIT energy research

Annual MITEI awards support research on battery storage, smart grids, and carbon emissions reduction.

June 30, 2020

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