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Professor Emeritus Igor Paul, an expert in product design and safety, dies at 87

Longtime professor helped develop the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s design and manufacturing curriculum, contributed to artificial joints as well as NASA inertial guidance systems.

January 31, 2024

Baran Mensah stands in a studio filled with organized shelves and small rovers on large tables. Mensah wears a Brass Rat ring.

Baran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country

From robotics to dance, the MIT senior has made it his mission to explore as many new experiences as possible at the Institute.

January 19, 2024

Headshots of Athul Paul Jacob, Maohao Shen, Victor Butoi, and Andi Peng.

Reasoning and reliability in AI

PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage.

January 18, 2024

Animation shows an illustration of Earth, as seen from space, with tiny red, green, cyan, and white dots swarming around it, representing objects orbiting the planet

Researchers release open-source space debris model

The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool lets users model the long-term future space environment.

January 10, 2024

Richard Wiesman, professor of the practice in mechanical engineering, dies at age 69

A highly respected educator and mentor with a distinguished industry career, Wiesman inspired generations of mechanical engineering students.

January 10, 2024

With a thought bubble containing a to-do list over its head, a robotic arm begins to complete kitchen tasks in three panels: opening a microwave, opening and closing a cupboard door, and placing a pot on a stove.

Multiple AI models help robots execute complex plans more transparently

A multimodal system uses models trained on language, vision, and action data to help robots develop and execute plans for household, construction, and manufacturing tasks.

January 8, 2024

A woman in a white lab coat tends a bank of six machines in a lab

Improving patient safety using principles of aerospace engineering

A new MIT study identifies six systemic factors contributing to patient hazards in laboratory diagnostics tests.

January 4, 2024

Photo of Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, who stands in front of a large window divided into small panes overlooking the courtyard of an ivy-covered industrial-style building.

Culturally informed design: Unearthing ingenuity where it always was

Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, a doctoral candidate in media arts and sciences and a MAD Design Fellow, researches how technology and tradition intersect in rural spaces, particularly in Colombia.

January 2, 2024

Headshots of Irene Terpestra and Rujul Gandhi

Leveraging language to understand machines

Master’s students Irene Terpstra ’23 and Rujul Gandhi ’22 use language to design new integrated circuits and make it understandable to robots.

December 22, 2023

Stylized text says “MIT 2023 In the Media” over a photo of people riding their bikes on the sidewalk down Mass Ave.

MIT in the media: 2023 in review

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

December 21, 2023

3 rows show how a cat’s tail is animated in 3 ways. The rows are labeled, from top to bottom: Dirichlet, Weighted TV, and ARAP. The rows show very similar versions of the cat’s tail enclosed in polygonal mesh marking animation points.

A flexible solution to help artists improve animation

This new method draws on 200-year-old geometric foundations to give artists control over the appearance of animated characters.

December 20, 2023

How to be an astronaut

Astronaut Woody Hoburg ’08 shares insights and advice with students in his first visit to campus since joining NASA.

December 12, 2023

Audience watches panel of five seated individuals on stage in front of screen that reads "brainstorming"

MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines

During the last week of November, MIT hosted symposia and events aimed at examining the implications and possibilities of generative AI.

December 11, 2023

A cross section of a heart with tube-like “muscles” wrapped around it

MIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber

The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.

December 8, 2023

A well-lit indoor herb garden sits on a shelf in a white room. It features a pale wooden base with four plants in a clear glass case.

Building a better indoor herb garden

Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 created the GardenByte indoor herb garden to grow crops three times faster than they would outdoors.

December 7, 2023