Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

Following a rigorous two-year competition involving nearly 400 MIT faculty members and researchers, five projects targeting the world’s toughest climate challenges will receive funding and move ...

Executives have poured billions into artificial intelligence, only to discover that most of those projects never make it past the pilot stage or fail to deliver meaningful returns. A recent wave of ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a way for a computer to essentially design its own robotic body, based on the available parts and the local terrain. Dubbed RoboGrammar, the system knows what ...

Scientists from MIT have developed a way to create interactive surfaces using airbrushed inks -- or in other words, graffiti that actually does stuff. The SprayableTech system lets users create ...

Across the business world, anxiety about AI’s effects on profit margins and job markets has been building for months. This concern reached new heights with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ...

“If I told you right now to think about a cat doing a headstand on top of a soccer ball, you’re gonna think of that thing,” said Adam Haar Horowitz. “This is the same idea, except that in a state of ...

The Deutsche Bundesbank is the latest monetary authority to team up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) to study central bank digital currency (CBDC) ...

An MIT project that aims to help provide clean drinking water for people in developing countries began with an extraordinary conference whose participants included an MIT engineer, the queen of Nepal, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer-science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell ...