Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed software engineering. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) can create huge volumes of code and documentation; machine-learning algorithms can monitor performance and detect security
Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base would require. This June, their designs wer…
Air taxis and autonomous aircraft are expected to fly in the skies above major cities in the coming years; far more aircraft than today’s air traffic controllers can handle directly. Researchers in DINaMo demonstrate how autonomous aircraft…
Read the full article in English and French on the CentraleSupélec website. The winner of the Robert B. Guenassia Prize, awarded to CentraleSupélec students pursuing their studies at MIT, Evrard Constant has just earned a Master of Science
Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you’re asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It’s a robot. To teach them, you might want to play a game of “show and tell” — that is,
At the recent AI and Society Forum at MIT, experts from across the Institute discussed the potential benefits and dangers of technological innovation on labor, the nature of work, civil discourse, election administration, and other topics.
As humans consider long-duration exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, there are outstanding questions about how to design spacecraft habitats to support crew wellbeing. Researchers in the Engineering Systems Lab leverage a Directed Ac…
To search for life outside our solar system, NASA’s next space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, must completely block a host star’s blinding light with picometer-level precision to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Researche…
Researchers in the Engineering Systems Lab, led by graduate student Daniel Gochenaur, present a detailed technical proposal to use 3D-aerocapture to deploy a GPS-like constellation upon hyperbolic arrival at Mars.Authors: Daniel C. Gochenau…
Researchers in the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment address the need for more literature focused on electric aircraft propulsion systems by consolidating a range of low-fidelity design methods for electrified aircraft design. The…
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 15th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full 2027 edition of the rankings — published by Quac…
An auto factory worker can remember the storage bin where she left a partly assembled component the night before, and quickly return to that spot to pick it up. But robots that may work side-by-side with her would struggle to develop and ac…