Abby Abazorius

MIT

Modeling AI ROI Like a CFO, Not a Vendor

Modeling AI ROI Like a CFO, Not a Vendor

August 31, 2026

AIR’s Cargo-Heavy Lift UAS.

AIR Partners with Elmo Motion Control on Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft Tech

August 31, 2026

This image provided by SpaceX on Aug. 27, 2026, shows engineers inspecting Starship off the coast of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, following its launch on a test flight back in July.

SpaceX Pulls Off Biggest Salvage Operation Yet

August 31, 2026

A rendering of JetZero's Jet1, a full-scale demonstrator airplane.

JetZero Secures Funding for Buildout of All-wing Airplane Factory

August 31, 2026

The 2026 AI-Powered Financial Analysis Handbook

The 2026 AI-Powered Financial Analysis Handbook

Several actions you can take right now to win with AI.

August 27, 2026

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination.

Sense Contamination in Food Products

Food safety incidents have caused illness and death nearly every year for the past two decades.

November 16, 2018

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How Should Autonomous Vehicles Be Programmed?

Driverless cars may one day have to decide to swerve toward a couple of people rather than a large group of bystanders.

October 25, 2018

MIT researchers have developed a new design system that catalogues the physical properties of a huge number of tiny cube clusters. These clusters can then serve as building blocks for larger printable objects.

MIT Develops New 3D Printer Design System

Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3D printers.

August 7, 2017

Researchers demonstrate their scanning technique, with a user holding a monopod-mounted Kinect at close range from a scanning T-Rex skull.

MIT Makes Prototype to Scan T-Rex Skull

The system uses $150 worth of hardware rather than a 3D scanner that costs 200 times as much.

July 6, 2017

A GelSight sensor attached to a robot's gripper enables the robot to determine precisely where it has grasped a small screwdriver, removing it from and inserting it back into a slot, even when the gripper screens the screwdriver from the robot's camera.

Tactile Sensor Lets Robots Use Small Tools

Two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and dexterity.

June 6, 2017

These pasta shapes were caused by immersing a 2-D flat film into water.

MIT Makes Shape-Shifting Noodles

This programmable pasta encourages you to play with your food.

May 26, 2017

Researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. With power savings of 90 to 99 percent, it could make voice control practical for relatively simple electronic devices.

Voice Control for All Electronics

Automatic speech recognition is on the verge of becoming your primary way to interact with devices.

February 14, 2017

An autonomous mobility scooter and related software were designed by researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

MIT Designs Autonomous Scooter

Think about it, an impaired user could take the scooter down the hall, take an autonomous golf cart to the parking lot, and pick up an autonomous car.

November 8, 2016

In the team's new approach, the whole shape of the wing can be changed, and twisted uniformly along its length, by activating two small motors that apply a twisting pressure to each wingtip.

'Morphing' Wing New Twist in Plane Manufacturing

New wing architecture could simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption.

November 4, 2016

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions.

Computer, Explain Yourself

New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.

October 28, 2016

Beavers and sea otters lack the thick layer of blubber that insulates walruses and whales. And yet these small, semiaquatic mammals can keep warm and even dry while diving, by trapping warm pockets of air in dense layers of fur. Inspired by these fuzzy swimmers, MIT engineers have now fabricated fur-like, rubbery pelts and used them to identify a mechanism by which air is trapped between individual hairs when the pelts are plunged into liquid.

Beaver-Inspired Wetsuit

Rubbery hair-lined wetsuits may help keep surfers warm.

October 10, 2016

A new microencapsulation technique yields particles of very consistent size, while also affording a high rate of production. The device, pictured here, that produces the spheres was itself manufactured with an affordable commercial 3-D printer.

MIT Creates New Microencapsulation Technique

Microencapsulation is widely used in pharmaceuticals manufacturing and holds promise for self-repairing materials and solar power.

October 6, 2016

This imaging system can read closed books.

Prototype Can Read Closed Books

MIT researchers are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

September 9, 2016

In this series, a 3D printed multimaterial shape-memory minigripper, consisting of shape-memory hinges and adaptive touching tips, grasps a cap screw.

Heat-Responsive Materials 'Remember'

3D printing shape-memory materials can be thought of as 4D printing, as the structures are designed to change over the fourth dimension, time.

August 29, 2016