School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.
Robotics
2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
Using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language models
A new “consensus game,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, elevates AI’s text comprehension and generation skills.
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot’s entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items.
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics
Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
Julie Shah named head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
An expert in robotics and AI, Shah succeeds Steven Barrett at AeroAstro.
Extracting hydrogen from rocks
Iwnetim Abate aims to stimulate natural hydrogen production underground, potentially unearthing a new path to a cheap, carbon-free energy source.
Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.
“We offer another place for knowledge”
After acquiring data science and AI skills from MIT, Jospin Hassan shared them with his community in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi and built pathways for talented learners.
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.