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Meet the Oystamaran
Meet the Oystamaran

Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, helping the shellfish to grow and stay healthy.

Machines that see the world more like humans do
Machines that see the world more like humans do

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training

Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12 make up a third of the 2021 NASA astronaut candidate class.

Q&A: More-sustainable concrete with machine learning
Q&A: More-sustainable concrete with machine learning

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers aim to design concrete mixtures that use AI to shrink environmental footprint and cost, while recycling byproducts and increasing performance.

A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots
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.

Making her way through MIT
Making her way through MIT

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.

Technique enables real-time rendering of scenes in 3D
Technique enables real-time rendering of scenes in 3D

The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods.

Silicon Valley beckoned, but he went home to Delaware
Silicon Valley beckoned, but he went home to Delaware

Senior Max Williamson uses his background in computer science to tackle public policy issues in his home state and on a global scale.

MIT ID cards go digital
MIT ID cards go digital

The MIT Mobile ID offers the same functionality a physical ID card does on campus, via an iOS or Android device.

3 Questions: Can we fix our flawed software?
3 Questions: Can we fix our flawed software?

Professor Daniel Jackson explores conceptual clarity and a new theory of software design in his book “The Essence of Software.”

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