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Monday, April 3, 2023

Photo shows a robotic hand holding a Rubik's Cube. Four insets shows colorful renderings of the hand’s sensors.

MIT news article

Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp

Robotics

The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips.

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Friday, March 31, 2023

A large, 3D gray mass binding to smaller molecules in various colors in one spot on the right side.

MIT news article

Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models

MIT researchers built DiffDock, a model that may one day be able to find new drugs faster than traditional methods and reduce the potential for adverse side effects.

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

At right are wooden glasses with colorful stained-glass-style mosaic lenses. At left, a hand holds a wooden circle, inside of which appears a stained-glass style mosaic image of a human face and shoulders, with the word POLAGONS superimposed

MIT news article

A design tool to democratize the art of color-changing mosaics

Graphic & Vision

Computational tool from MIT CSAIL enables color-changing cellulose-based designs for data visualization, education, fashion, and more.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

2 pairs of neural networks on decorative background. The left pair is shown expanding vertically with more rows; the right pair expands horizontally with more columns.

MIT news article

Learning to grow machine-learning models

New LiGO technique accelerates training of large machine-learning models, reducing the monetary and environmental cost of developing AI applications.

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