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This computational illustration shows a graphene network structure below a layer of water.

How to power up graphene implants without frying cells

New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues.

September 23, 2016

This diagram demonstrates the simplified results that can be obtained by using quantum analysis on enormous, complex sets of data. Shown here are the connections between different regions of the brain in a control subject (left) and a subject under the influence of the psychedelic compound psilocybin (right). This demonstrates a dramatic increase in connectivity, which explains some of the drug’...

A new quantum approach to big data

System for handling massive digital datasets could make impossibly complex problems solvable.

January 25, 2016

NASA's "Valkyrie" robot is 6 feet tall and weighs 290 pounds. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will test and develop the bot for future space missions.

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

Team led by Professor Russ Tedrake of CSAIL to develop algorithms for 6-foot-tall “Valkyrie” robot to travel to Mars and beyond.

November 17, 2015

MIT professor of biological engineering Christopher Voigt

Engineering biology

With a new DARPA contract, biological engineer Christopher Voigt aims to harness the power of living cells.

September 24, 2015

MIT's Stata Center, which houses the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars

Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

September 4, 2015

A bipedal robot with human reflexes

New human-machine interface keeps robot balanced, with human reflexes.

August 10, 2015

A still from a video of MIT's first DARPA Robotics Challenge run, where they scored 7 points.

Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research

MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.

June 11, 2015

MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge

CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.

June 8, 2015

MIT Atlas humanoid robot for the DARPA Robotics Challenge

Robotic challenger

MIT team prepares to meet 24 others in $2 million DARPA competition to develop disaster-assistance robots.

June 3, 2015

MIT researchers have trained their robotic cheetah to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously.

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump

Robot sees, clears hurdles while bounding at 5 mph.

May 29, 2015

This image illustrates nerve fibers that originate in a part of the prefrontal cortex associated with emotion. The green shows the termination of fibers from a part of the prefrontal cortex in the striatum; the red depicts striosomes; and the yellow shows their overlap. The researchers found that the striatum — particularly the striosomes — may act as a gatekeeper that processes sensory and em...

How we make emotional decisions

Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that controls decisions that induce high anxiety.

May 28, 2015

Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row).

Graphics in reverse

Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.

April 13, 2015

This image illustrates the entanglement of a large number of atoms. The atoms, shown in purple, are shown mutually entangled with one another.

Thousands of atoms entangled with a single photon

Result could make atomic clocks more accurate.

March 25, 2015

Images show calcium ion influx into neurons as a result of magnetothermal excitation with alternating magnetic fields in the presence of magnetic nanoparticles.

Magnetic brain stimulation

New technique could lead to long-lasting localized stimulation of brain tissue without external connections.

March 12, 2015

Jack Ruina dies at 91

Emeritus professor of electrical engineering and computer science was a former MIT vice president for special labs and first director of MIT's Security Studies Program.

February 12, 2015

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