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Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects

June 6, 2025

The approach could help animators to create realistic 3D characters or engineers to design elastic products.

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

June 6, 2025

SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.

Teaching AI models what they don’t know

June 6, 2025

A team of MIT researchers founded Themis AI to quantify AI model uncertainty and address knowledge gaps.

New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds

June 6, 2025

Researchers developed an algorithm that lets a robot “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously.

Interactive mouthpiece advances opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

May 29, 2025

“MouthIO” is an in-mouth device that users can digitally design and 3D print with integrated sensors and actuators to capture health data and interact with a computer or phone.

Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

May 14, 2025

Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.

Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings

May 9, 2025

A new method helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions.

System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling

May 9, 2025

With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.

Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

May 8, 2025

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain

May 5, 2025

New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators.