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Each year, farmers around the world spend $80 billion on pesticides for their crops. Now, Robigo is equipping naturally occurring microbes with more potent pest-fighting capabilities.
Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops
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Sep 2
In a new Boston Globe Opinion essay, MIT President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif calls for a simple, globally understood “moral floor” for AI: principles that keep people in ultimate control and prohibit deception, harm, exploitation, and evasion of human oversight.
AI needs a Ten Commandments - The Boston Globe
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Aug 31
A former MIT class project is becoming an $850 million effort to manufacture a new kind of aircraft in Ohio.
A new kind of aircraft departs an MIT classroom and arrives at an Ohio factory
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Aug 28
To keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study pinpoints the circuit that provides that service.
Brain circuit keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgment of what’s happening now
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Aug 27
Dubbed “bifur-circuits,” these interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices.
MIT engineers create a system for building shape-changing smart devices
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