
3D modeling you can feel
TactStyle, a system developed by CSAIL researchers, uses image prompts to replicate both the visual appearance and tactile properties of 3D models.

“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones.

Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
A new method from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab helps large language models to steer their own responses toward safer, more ethical, value-aligned outputs.

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.

Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up
MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that can traverse challenging terrains and carry heavy payloads.

New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data
The approach maintains an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract secret information.

Student Spotlight: YongYan (Crystal) Liang
YongYan (Crystal) Liang, is a senior majoring in 6-2, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Liang has a particular interest in bioengineering and medical devices, which lead her to join the Living Machines track as part of NEET. A SuperUROP scholar, Liang was supported by the Nadar Foundation Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar award for her project, which focused on steering systems for intravascular drug delivery devices. A world traveler, Liang has also taught robotics to students in MISTI GTL (Global Teaching Labs) programs in Korea and Germany–and is involved with the Terrascope and Medlinks communities.

A team at MIT have created a “lab kit in a box” made of locally sourced and easily replaced materials for biomedical students working in Kenya and Uganda, where supply chain and environmental issues can compound technological problems with medical equipment.

The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.

MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.