Researchers 3D print sensors for satellites

Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 27, 2022 ~7 min

Q&A: Warehouse robots that feel by sight

Neuroscience professor and Science Hub investigator Ted Adelson explains how simulating the sense of touch with a camera can make robots smarter.

Kim Martineau | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
July 26, 2022 ~6 min


Watch-like sensor monitors pulse without batteries

A new wristwatch-style health monitor can keep track of your pulse, without the need for a battery or outside power source.

Brian Bell-UC Irvine • futurity
July 13, 2022 ~5 min

Smart textiles sense how their users are moving

Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 7, 2022 ~8 min

Soft ‘NeuroString’ could probe brain and gut

A new invention called "NeuroString" is a soft implantable probe that lets researchers study the chemistry of brain and gut health.

Michigan State • futurity
June 28, 2022 ~6 min

‘Tattoo’ continuously monitors blood pressure

An electronic "tattoo" more accurately monitors blood pressure in times of high stress, while sleeping, or exercising than nearly all current options.

Nat Levy-UT Austin • futurity
June 22, 2022 ~6 min

Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving

MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for deployable training and testing of autonomous vehicles.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 21, 2022 ~8 min

Quantum sensor can detect electromagnetic signals of any frequency

MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for quantum computing and biological sensing.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
June 21, 2022 ~6 min


Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 13, 2022 ~7 min

Blood oxygen tools don’t work as well for patients who aren’t white

A common medical device routinely overestimates blood oxygen levels in Black and Hispanic patients, possibly leading to a delay in treatment for COVID-19.

Maura Kinney-Johns Hopkins • futurity
June 1, 2022 ~5 min

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