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Latimer Futures Summit

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Welcome to the Latimer Futures Summit at MIT! Join us for a day filled with inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities with industry experts. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights into the future of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Get ready to be inspired and connect with like-minded individuals shaping the future.

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The “PhysicsGen” system can multiply a few dozen VR demonstrations into nearly 3,000 simulations per machine for mechanical companions like robotic arms and hands (Credit: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL using photos from the researchers).
CSAIL article

When ChatGPT or Gemini gives what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular artificial intelligence (AI) models, these chatbots rely on backbone systems called foundation models that train on billions or even trillions of data points.

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A robotic arm learns to understand its own body (Credit: Courtesy of the researchers).
CSAIL article

In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or embedded sensors – in fact, the hand contains none. Instead, the entire system relies on a single camera that watches the robot’s movements and uses that visual data to control it.

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Top row, left to right: Matthew Caren, April Qiu Cheng, Arav Karighattam, and Benjamin Lou. Bottom row, left to right: Isabelle Quaye, Albert Qin, Ananthan Sadagopan, and Gianfranco (Franco) Yee (Credits: Photos courtesy of the Hertz Foundation).
CSAIL article

The Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to eight MIT affiliates. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to a total of $250,000), which gives them an unusual measure of independence in their graduate work to pursue groundbreaking research.