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Contact-Aware Robot Design

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

Who Can Bend Light For Cheaper Internet?

ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.

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How Quickly Do Algorithms Improve?

MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.

Making Health And Motion Sensing Devices More Personal

An electrical impedance tomography toolkit lets users design and fabricate health and motion sensing devices.

Toward A Smarter Electronic Health Record

Neural network identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

Deep Learning Helps Predict New Drug Combinations To Fight Covid-19

Neural network identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

Dexterous Robotic Hands Manipulate Thousands Of Objects With Ease

Model-free framework reorients over 2,000 diverse objects with a hand facing both upward and downward, in a step toward more human-like manipulation.

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.

Nonsense Can Make Sense To Machine-Learning Models

Deep-learning methods confidently recognize images that are nonsense, a potential problem for medical and autonomous-driving decisions.

MIT Researchers Make Language Models Scalable Self-Learners

The scientists used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.

Generative AI Imagines New Protein Structures

MIT researchers develop "FrameDiff," a computational tool that uses generative AI to craft new protein structures, with the aim of accelerating drug development and improving gene therapy.

Atlas Of Human Brain Blood Vessels Highlights Changes In Alzheimer’s Disease

MIT researchers characterize gene expression patterns for 22,500 brain vascular cells across 428 donors, revealing insights for Alzheimer’s onset and potential treatments.

Computer Vision System Marries Image Recognition And Generation

MAGE merges the two key tasks of image generation and recognition, typically trained separately, into a single system.

Helping Robots Handle Fluids

Researchers create a new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping them more effortlessly assist with daily tasks.

Atlas Of Human Brain Blood Vessels Highlights Changes In Alzheimer’s Disease

MIT researchers characterize gene expression patterns for 22,500 brain vascular cells across 428 donors, revealing insights for Alzheimer’s onset and potential treatments.

Computer Vision System Marries Image Recognition And Generation

MAGE merges the two key tasks of image generation and recognition, typically trained separately, into a single system.

Helping Robots Handle Fluids

Researchers create a new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping them more effortlessly assist with daily tasks.

Seeing Into The Future: Personalized Cancer Screening With Artificial Intelligence

Scientists demonstrate that AI-risk models, paired with AI-designed screening policies, can offer significant and equitable improvements to cancer screening.

Security Tool Guarantees Privacy In Surveillance Footage

“Privid” could help officials gather secure public health data or enable transportation departments to monitor the density and flow of pedestrians, without learning personal information about people.

A Flexible Way To Grab Items With Feeling

MIT engineers Edward Adelson and Sandra Liu duo develop a robotic gripper with rich sensory capabilities.