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Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops
Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee, comes closer to matching nature’s performance than ever before. Led by Kevin Chen, an associate…
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Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mud
One costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the concrete is poured. Now MIT researchers have developed a way to replace the wood with lightly treated mud. “What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil…
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Odd new tricks from a massive black hole
In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy 270 million light-years away. Its corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later. Now members of the team have…
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A worldwide road trip for the Institute’s president
Soon after MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth, was inaugurated in May 2023, she made it a priority to expand her early on-campus listening tour to alumni living and working around the world. She wanted to learn more about their priorities and their connections with MIT, while also engaging them in her expansive vision for its…
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Researchers at Physical Intelligence Introduce π-0.5: A New AI Framework for Real-Time Adaptive Intelligence in Physical Systems
Designing intelligent systems that function reliably in dynamic physical environments remains one of the more difficult frontiers in AI. While significant advances have been made in perception and planning within simulated or controlled contexts, the real world is noisy, unpredictable, and resistant to abstraction. Traditional AI systems often rely on high-level representations detached from their…
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The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia
Solar cells are joined together during production at the SunSpark Technology Inc. manufacturing facility in Riverside, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. | Photo: Getty Images Solar cells from four Southeast Asian countries that have been major suppliers to the US are facing newly increased tariffs, hiked up as high as 3,521 percent. The…
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A Coding Guide to Build an Agentic AI‑Powered Asynchronous Ticketing Assistant Using PydanticAI Agents, Pydantic v2, and SQLite Database
In this tutorial, we’ll build an end‑to‑end ticketing assistant powered by Agentic AI using the PydanticAI library. We’ll define our data rules with Pydantic v2 models, store tickets in an in‑memory SQLite database, and generate unique identifiers with Python’s uuid module. Behind the scenes, two agents, one for creating tickets and one for checking status,…
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The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could. Here’s…
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Batch data processing is too slow for real-time AI: How open-source Apache Airflow 3.0 solves the challenge with event-driven data orchestration
Open-source data orchestration gets a major rewrite to help support inference and enterprise AIRead More
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Nissan’s GT-R set to return by 2030 as a plug-in hybrid
Nissan GT-R 50 by Ital design on display at Nissan Crossing in Ginza. | Image: Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nissan’s next-generation GT-R is expected to launch by the end of the decade, and it’s not going to be a pure EV. The new R36 GT-R that will succeed the aging R35 will have…