Research

Working groups identify key ideas for new college; period of community feedback continues.

A fleet of “roboats” could collect garbage or self-assemble into floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals.

If you’ve ever wondered what a loaf of bread would look like as a cat, edges2cats is for you. The program that turns sketches into images of cats is one of many whimsical creations inspired by Phillip Isola’s image-to-image translation software released in the early days of generative adversarial networks, or GANs.

MIT startup Inkbit is overcoming traditional constraints to 3-D printing by giving its machines “eyes and brains.”