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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

15 photos in a sequential 3x5 grid show two robotic arms working together to pick up an item.

A new optimization framework for robot motion planning

MIT CSAIL researchers established new connections between combinatorial and continuous optimization, which can find global solutions for complex motion-planning puzzles.

November 30, 2023

Rodney Brooks holding up a book while speaking

What does the future hold for generative AI?

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.

November 29, 2023

Colorful Picasso-like painting portraying a human figure helping an AI agent fit pieces of a puzzle together.

New method uses crowdsourced feedback to help train robots

Human Guided Exploration (HuGE) enables AI agents to learn quickly with some help from humans, even if the humans make mistakes.

November 27, 2023

President Sally Kornbluth during the MIT "Generative AI: Shaping the Future Symposium"

Journey to the future of generative AI

MIT Generative AI Week will explore the latest cutting-edge research, along with the implications and possibilities of generative AI.

November 20, 2023

Rendering shows a six-legged robot, standing against a black background, in the process of being 3D-printed. Near the back of the robot, floating black spheres are assembled and then cured by a blue UV light beaming down from above. On top, cameras point down to scan the action.

This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects

Computer vision enables contact-free 3D printing, letting engineers print with high-performance materials they couldn’t use before.

November 15, 2023

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