Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Formula 1 and MIT team up to create sustainable mobility for UAE events

Formula 1 and MIT team up to create sustainable mobility for UAE events

FIA and MIT Senseable City Lab team up to improve mobility for major UAE events. The project aims to reduce the carbon impact of events like the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Improved access and traffic management are key goals. The Middle East’s inaugural MIT Senseable City Lab in Dubai and the governing body … Read more

AI Model Accelerates High-Resolution Computer Vision

AI Model Accelerates

EfficientViT: 9x faster mobile semantic segmentation. Innovative attention maps enhance pixel relationships. Hardware-friendly design for VR and autonomous vehicles. Researchers from MIT, in collaboration with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and other institutions, have unveiled an innovative computer vision model designed to significantly reduce the computational complexity of semantic segmentation. This breakthrough allows the model … Read more

AI-Powered Robots Take a Step Closer to Human-Level Dexterity

AI-Powered

MIT researchers have developed a method for robots to plan actions University of Bristol has developed a dual-arm robotic setup. Stanford University researchers have developed a method for teaching robots Researchers are making remarkable progress in improving the agility and touch sensitivity of robots, aiming for machines that can handle objects as skillfully as human … Read more

Juggling Duo Attempts Tandem World Record at MIT

World Record

Juggling enthusiasts David Rush and Arthur Lewbel successfully attempted to reclaim a Guinness World Record for most consecutive side-by-side juggling catches by a team of two. The pair, who had previously held the record with 532 catches in 2018, lost it to German jugglers Luca Pferdmenges and Jan Daumin, who achieved 901 catches. Determined to … Read more

Pakistan-born Nergis Mavalvala becomes new dean of MIT

A Pakistan-born astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala becomes the new dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Science. According to details, Nergis’s services will come into effect from September 1 and will succeed Michael Sipser. The Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics Mavalvala is known for her pioneering work in gravitational-wave detection. She … Read more