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An Automated Way To Assemble Thousands Of Objects

A new algorithm for automatic assembly of products is accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.

A New Language For Quantum Computing

Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.

Robotic Cubes Shapeshift In Outer Space

Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.

3 Questions: Amar Gupta On An Integrated Approach To Enhanced Health-Care Delivery

The MIT researcher and former professor discusses how Covid-19 and the influx of virtual technologies created a new medical ecosystem that needs more synchronized oversight.

Reprogrammable Materials Selectively Self-Assemble

Researchers create a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly.

3 Questions: How AI Image Generators Could Help Robots

Yilun Du, a PhD student and MIT CSAIL affiliate, discusses the potential applications of generative art beyond the explosion of images that put the web into creative hysterics.

Researchers Create the First Artificial Vision System for Both Land and Water

Inspired by a fiddler crab eye, scientists developed an amphibious artificial vision system with a panoramic visual field.

3 Questions: Teaching Computational Maker Skills Through Gaming

With FabO, PhD student Dishita Turakhia wants to empower students to learn digital fabrication by making video game objects and characters come alive.

A Programming Language for Hardware Accelerators

Researchers created Exo for writing high-performance code on hardware accelerators.

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.

Researchers Discover a New Hardware Vulnerability in the Apple M1 Chip

CSAIL scientists’ novel hardware attack against the Apple M1 chip defeats the last line of security while leaving no trace.