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- IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole-Body Manipulation
- MIT News (Machine Learning)Making machines that can listen
- IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
- IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself
- ScienceDaily (Robotics)A tiny defect in a crystal reveals a big quantum surprise
- MIT News (Machine Learning)Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
- MIT News (Machine Learning)This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
- MIT News (Machine Learning)Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable
- IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build
- MIT News (Machine Learning)Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
- IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Video Friday: When Two Robots Become One
- MIT News (Machine Learning)AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate
AIMIT News (Machine Learning)Making machines that can listen
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News (Machine Learning)
RoboticsIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the robot or its…
IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)
RoboticsIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026 :…
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A tiny defect in a crystal reveals a big quantum surprise
Researchers have solved a long-standing challenge in understanding how tiny defects in materials like diamond and silicon carbide behave when exposed to light. Their new computational method revealed a surprisingly important energy-loss mechanism in silicon…
ScienceDaily (Robotics) 
AIMIT News (Machine Learning)Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
MIT News (Machine Learning)
AIMIT News (Machine Learning)This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
MIT News (Machine Learning)
AIMIT News (Machine Learning)Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable
A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.
MIT News (Machine Learning)
RoboticsIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build
Agility Robotics , the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5 . It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at scale, allowing us to bring tens…
IEEE Spectrum (Robotics)
AIMIT News (Machine Learning)Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.
MIT News (Machine Learning)
- 01Video Friday: When Two Robots Become OneIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)17 days ago
- 02AI model decodes the language cells use to communicateMIT News (Machine Learning)18 days ago
- 03Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks outMIT News (Machine Learning)19 days ago
- 04How artificial neural networks build their own learning machineryMIT News (Machine Learning)20 days ago
- 05Q&A: Mars Perseverance Rover Sets a Distance RecordIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)20 days ago
- 06Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun TurnIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)24 days ago
- 07This Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You NeedIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)25 days ago
- 08Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centersMIT News (Machine Learning)25 days ago
- 09HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object InteractionIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)26 days ago
- 10Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardwareMIT News (Machine Learning)27 days ago
- 11Computational tools for society’s most complex challengesMIT News (Machine Learning)Oct 2
- 12Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails AwayIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Oct 2
- 13New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they wantMIT News (Machine Learning)Oct 1
- 14Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike DesignsIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Oct 1
- 15A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie KempIEEE Spectrum (Robotics)Sep 28
- 16Billions in rare earth elements may be hiding in America’s coal ashScienceDaily (Robotics)Sep 19
- 17Scientists find a way to slash computer memory energy use by orders of magnitudeScienceDaily (Robotics)Sep 7
- 18AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can reactScienceDaily (Robotics)Sep 6
- 19AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloyScienceDaily (Robotics)Aug 27
- 20From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple SiliconBerkeley AI ResearchJul 29
- 21Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon InteractionBerkeley AI ResearchJul 26
- 22Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteriesScienceDaily (Robotics)Jul 8
- 23Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by AgentsBerkeley AI ResearchJul 7
- 24Scientists thought the universe was uniform. New evidence says otherwiseScienceDaily (Robotics)Jul 7
- 252026 BAIR Graduate ShowcaseBerkeley AI ResearchJul 1
- 26This strange material can become strong or fall apart in secondsScienceDaily (Robotics)Jun 15
- 27Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuelScienceDaily (Robotics)Jun 11
- 28Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart materialScienceDaily (Robotics)Jun 11
- 29AI could uncover new physics faster but there’s a surprising catchScienceDaily (Robotics)Jun 11
- 30Stanford quantum computing breakthrough uses twisted light to work without extreme coolingScienceDaily (Robotics)May 30
- 31Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference ScalingBerkeley AI ResearchMay 8
- 32Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer HorizonsBerkeley AI ResearchApr 20
- 33Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMsBerkeley AI ResearchMar 13
- 34Information-Driven Design of Imaging SystemsBerkeley AI ResearchJan 10
- 35RL without TD learningBerkeley AI ResearchNov 1
- 36What exactly does word2vec learn?Berkeley AI ResearchSep 1
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