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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions

Founded by two former regulars at the MITERS makerspace, the company has built huge, rugged drones to more safely and sustainably apply fertilizers and pesticides on farms.

June 5, 2025

Cartoon of a robotic arm making childlike line drawings of things like butterflies, elephants, and DNA helixes on pieces of paper.

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.

June 2, 2025

Eight with MIT ties win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The fellowships recognize doctoral students who have “the extraordinary creativity and principled leadership necessary to tackle problems others can’t solve.”

June 2, 2025

Hank Green speaks at podium, which has the MIT seal.

Commencement address by Hank Green

“Do not forget how special and bizarre it is to get to live a human life,” the science communicator and video creator told the Class of 2025.

May 29, 2025

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AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention

This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.

May 22, 2025

Realistic photo illustration of a portion of Earth's surface with clusters of city lights connected by arcing lines

Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures

Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.

May 21, 2025

Two photos show coral, with one on left more muted and murky.

Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

The color-correcting tool, known as “SeaSplat,” reveals more realistic colors of underwater features.

May 20, 2025

6 photos show people using a prototype of the robot.

Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall

The new design could assist the elderly as they age in place at home.

May 13, 2025

Time lapse shows ping pong paddle hitting ball.

Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

In addition to training future players, the technology could expand the capabilities of other humanoid robots, such as for search and rescue.

May 8, 2025

System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling

With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.

May 8, 2025

Three scenes from AI-created videos: Three panels reveal different AI-created scenes: colorful monsters dancing; wooly mammoths roaming an arctic tundra; and a miniature character in an antique deep-sea diving suit walks on leaves.

Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

May 6, 2025

Startup helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater

Founded by former MIT Tata Center translational research director Jason Prapas, Fyto has built an automated system for harvesting the aquatic plant Lemna on dairy farms.

May 6, 2025

Conceptual illustration of autonomous vehicles communicating on a smart highway.

New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.

May 5, 2025

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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4

New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship.

April 30, 2025

Carlo Ratti sits on chair in middle of busy street.

At the Venice Biennale, design through flexible thinking

The renowned architecture exhibition, curated this year by MIT’s Carlo Ratti, puts an emphasis on adaptive intelligence.

April 29, 2025

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