New method uses crowdsourced feedback to help train robots

Human Guided Exploration (HuGE) enables AI agents to learn quickly with some help from humans, even if the humans make mistakes.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Nov. 27, 2023 ~8 min

This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects

Computer vision enables contact-free 3D printing, letting engineers print with high-performance materials they couldn’t use before.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Nov. 15, 2023 ~8 min


Industrial Robot Crushes Worker in South Korea

VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 9, 2023 ~3 min

MIT engineers are on a failure-finding mission

The team’s new algorithm finds failures and fixes in all sorts of autonomous systems, from drone teams to power grids.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Nov. 9, 2023 ~8 min

Do We Need Human-like Robots?

VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 8, 2023 ~4 min

450M-year-old organism comes back to life in robot form

A "Softbotics" replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed 450 million years ago, could offer new insight into the evolution of locomotion.

Kaitlyn Landram-Carnegie Mellon • futurity
Nov. 7, 2023 ~6 min

Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world

By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
Nov. 2, 2023 ~9 min

German Companies Turn to Robots to Fill Jobs for Retiring Workers

VOA Learning English • voa
Oct. 31, 2023 ~4 min


Stretchy liquid metal material could improve wearable tech

A self-healing, stretchy material that can expand to 22 times its original length could improve wearable tech and soft robotics.

National University of Singapore • futurity
Oct. 23, 2023 ~5 min

Picking this exoskeleton’s settings is a lot like using Pandora music

A lot like picking favorite songs on Pandora, users "teach" a new algorithm the level of exoskeleton assistance they prefer.

Kate McAlpine-Michigan • futurity
Oct. 23, 2023 ~7 min

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