MIT engineers develop a long, curved touch sensor that could enable a robot to grasp and manipulate objects in multiple ways.

“Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic computing prototype to serve real-time machine-learning inference requests.

Coupling engineered bacteria with low-power electronics could be highly effective in diagnosis, treatment of bowel diseases.

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change.

MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.

The ultrasmall “switch” could be easily scaled.

MIT engineers developed a new way to create these arrays, by scaffolding quantum rods onto patterned DNA.

A new technique produces perovskite nanocrystals right where they’re needed, so the exceedingly delicate materials can be integrated into nanoscale devices.

The foundry gives the wider research community access to Lincoln Laboratory’s expertise in fabricating quantum circuits.

The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.