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The 30th Annual European Career Fair (ECF) at MIT

The MIT European Club is excited to announce the 30th Annual European Career Fair (ECF) on March 7th, 2026.

 

We would be thrilled to welcome your organization to this year’s ECF!

 

The MIT European Career Fair is the largest Europe-focused career fair in the United States, with 29 years of successful fairs. Each year, the ECF attracts over 2,000 students and more than 100 employers from across Europe.

 

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Cafe Compute: MIT Sloan Tech Summit Welcome Party

Open to the public!

 

This event is part of the MIT Sloan Tech Summit 2026, the largest student-led event at the MIT Sloan School of Management. CSAIL Alliances is not organizing this event, but is pleased to offer support.

 

Learn more and register for Cafe Compute.

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MIT Sloan Tech Summit
Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Building AI at Scale

MIT Sloan TECH Summit 2026 is a student-led conference at MIT, happening with support from CSAIL Alliances.

 

Learn more, see the full agenda, and register here. 

 

Given the prompt “Make me a chair” and feedback “I want panels on the seat,” the robot assembles a chair and places panel components according to the user prompt (Credits: Courtesy of the researchers).
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“Robot, make me a chair”

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools incorporate such a high level of detail they don’t lend themselves to brainstorming or rapid prototyping.

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Dual-use Ventures IAP Course

Hosted by our friends at Mission Innovation X, this stop in the CSAIL Alliances Startup Success Journey focuses on dual-use and what that means for technology.

 

(Not sure what we're talking about? Learn about the Start Up Success Journey and MIT IAP).

 

MIT researchers are teaching robots to understand their own limits while still achieving their goals, ensuring the machines move safely and never overextend themselves (Credits: Maximilian Stölzle and Joey Impoza Roberts).
CSAIL article
New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to avoid contact with the environment as much as possible and stay far away from humans for safety reasons, this arm senses subtle forces, stretching and flexing in ways that mimic more of the compliance of a human hand. Its every motion is calculated to avoid excessive force while achieving the task efficiently. In MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS) labs, these seemingly simple movements are the culmination of complex mathematics, careful engineering, and a vision for robots that can safely interact with humans and delicate objects.

Pulkit Agrawal, MIT Associate Professor and CSAIL principal investigator (Credit: Mike Grimmett/MIT CSAIL).
CSAIL article
Pulkit Agrawal receives the IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award

Pulkit Agrawal, MIT EECS Associate Professor and CSAIL principal investigator, has received the Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award from the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) for his work in “robot learning, self-supervised and sim-to-real policy learning, agile locomotion, and dexterous manipulation,” according to the organization.

MIT CSAIL & Pegatron (Credit: Alex Gagne & Pegatron).
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MIT CSAIL and Pegatron launch five-year initiative to pioneer physically intelligent robots

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) and Pegatron Corporation today announced a landmark five-year research partnership aimed at developing the next generation of emotionally and physically intelligent robotic systems. The program, led by CSAIL Director and MIT Professor Daniela Rus and Alan Lin, Corporate Partner Lead at Pegatron, will run from 2026 to 2031 and is designed to redefine the capabilities of robots in human-centered environments.

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