Living boldly at MIT + measuring the brain + future of robotics

The cap will help researchers gain new insight into how the brain functions.

Vecna Technologies, founded by a pair of MIT alumni, has followed a long and winding path to help people in health care settings.

Notowidigdo will guide J-PAL North America in developing rigorous research on economic mobility and advise the creation of a racial equity research agenda.

Professor Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL), discusses the future of artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning, emphasizing the importance of balancing the development of new technologies with the need to ensure they are deployed in a way that benefits humanity. “We have to advance the science and engineering of autonomy and the science and engineering of intelligence to create the kinds of machines that will be friendly to people, that will be assistive and supportive for people and that will augment people with the tasks that they need help with,” Rus explains.