A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.

The MIT professor’s work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy.

MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.

MIT welcomes nearly 10,000 alumni and guests to celebrate the anniversary of their graduation.

Rob Morris PhD ’14 has dedicated his career to easing access to mental health services online. “I want to do for mental health what Google did for flights,” says Morris.

Graduate student Anna Ivanova and University of Texas at Austin Professor Kyle Mahowald, along with Professors Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Tenenbaum and Nancy Kanwisher, make the case that even though AI systems may be able to use language fluently, it does not mean they are sentient, conscious, or intelligent.

The MIT Spokes cycling team has embarked on a 3,800-mile, cross-country bike trip that features frequent stops to offer STEM workshops to middle school students.

MIT CSAIL researchers trained a robot to “use two metal grippers to mold the approximate shapes of the letters B, R, T, X, and A out of Play-Doh. The training involved just 10 minutes of randomly manipulating a block of the modeling clay beforehand, without requiring any human demonstrations.”