Researchers say they have developed a light-sensitive protein that can indicate how much voltage a particular nerve cell is experiencing.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2018
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2018
Researchers have demonstrated the successful interaction of photons, which could clear a path toward using light particles in quantum computing.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2018
A new chip performs public-key encryption while consuming only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2018
Researchers say they have developed a system that can numerically specify the properties designers want in a material, then generate a microstructure that matches...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 6, 2018
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2018
Following their proposal of a neural network-based artificial intelligence system that sifts through scientific papers and finds "recipes" for specific types of...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 28, 2017
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have used an interpretive method to analyze neural networks trained for machine translation...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2017
Researchers have made flexible and stretchable photonic devices using a specialized type of glass formed into a spring-like coil.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2017
FeatureHub is a new collaboration tool designed to make feature identification more efficient and effective.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2017
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2017
Researchers say they have created a solution to the "interconnect bottleneck" that slows communication between different chip elements.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 24, 2017
Researchers are working to apply artificial intelligence to improving the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2017
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2017
Primer is a shape-shifting robot that can reconfigure itself into different exoskeletal "outfits" to perform distinct tasks.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 29, 2017
Researchers have developed a design system to catalog the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 9, 2017
A new sleep monitoring system uses an algorithm to analyze radio signals around subjects and translate those measurements into sleep stages.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2017