The language capabilities of today’s artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that of a human being. Yet we…
Category: Engineering
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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials | MIT News
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can…
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AI spots deadly heart risk most doctors can’t see
A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest.
The linchpin is the system’s ability to analyze long-underused heart imaging, alongside a full spectrum of medical records, to reveal…
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An interview with Nicolai Ommer: the RoboCup Soccer Small Size League
Kick-off in a Small Size League match. Image credit: Nicolai Ommer.
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the art of intelligent robots, AI…
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New imaging technique reconstructs the shapes of hidden objects | MIT News
A new imaging technique developed by MIT researchers could enable quality-control robots in a warehouse to peer through a cardboard shipping box and see that the handle of a mug buried under packing peanuts is…
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Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely | MIT News
Diffusion models like OpenAI’s DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to generate an image, create a video, or refine a blueprint, and come back with…
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Robotics Alum Earns PAMI Young Researcher Honorable Mention
06/26/2025 Adam Kohlhaas
Ishan Misra, who earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2018, received a 2025 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young…
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RoboCupRescue: an interview with Adam Jacoff
The RoboCupRescue arena at RoboCup2024, Eindhoven.
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the science of intelligent robots, AI and automation….
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Accelerating hardware development to improve national security and innovation | MIT News
Modern fighter jets contain hundreds or even thousands of sensors. Some of those sensors collect data every second, others every nanosecond. For the engineering teams building and testing those jets, all those data points…
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Your CT scan could reveal a hidden heart risk—and AI just learned how to find it
Mass General Brigham researchers have developed a new AI tool in collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to probe through previously collected CT scans and identify individuals with high coronary artery calcium…
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