MIT EECS Department

"It’s not so difficult to get a robot to do something once for a video," says Daniela Rus, Panasonic Professor of EECS and director of CSAIL - MIT. "Getting a humanoid to do a task in a robust and reliable way, with all the long-tail complications, is much harder."

The turning point for real-world robotics MIT’s Daniela Rus explains why robots need AI with physics, common sense, and real-world reasoning to become reliable autonomous systems.

EECS graduate student Nicolas Gorlo wants robots to be able to help you with any task. Including finding your keys.

Could AI tell you where you left your keys? A new memory framework known as DAAAM enables a robot to rapidly recall rich descriptions and precise locational information about objects it encountered while exploring its environment. This efficient approach could help an autonomous agent quickly answer complex queries about its environment in na...

A multidisciplinary MIT team led by Polina Golland PhD ’01 in the MIT EECS Department is developing a suite of noninvasive surface sensors designed to move maternal health monitoring out of the clinic and into daily life.

By embedding commercially available ultrasound sensors within a specialized "biogel" patch, the researchers can now collect clinical-quality data over several days—a feat previously deemed impractical. Combined with sensors designed to track fetal kicks and uterine contractions in real time, the technology aims to identify complications before they become emergencies.

The project draws on a broad spectrum of MIT expertise, including co-principal investigators Polina Anikeeva (MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)), Tal Cohen (civil and environmental engineering and MIT Mechanical Engineering), Alan Jasanoff (MIT Department of Biological Engineering), and Xuanhe Zhao (mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering). By merging these complementary fields, the team aims to replace intermittent clinical check-ups with a continuous, data-driven support system for expectant mothers.

📸: Ken Richardson

https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2026/new-ideas-for-preventing-complications-during-pregnancy/

More than 30 students contributed across the teams, from AeroAstro, System Design and Management, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, the Technology and Policy Program, the Sloan School of Management and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, along with a student from Wellesley College.

Interdisciplinary MIT teams design power, communications, and early lunar industries to win top honors in NASA innovation competition - MIT AeroAstro Three MIT teams took five top awards in the 2026 NASA RASC-AL Competition for designing critical elements for the Moon Base and future missions to Mars. Three teams comprising 35 […]

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Don Yansen '63 is focused on expanding health modeling capabilities “to help seniors live the best life that they can.”

AgeLab Research Inspires Class of ’63 Alum to Launch AI Startup When 84-year-old serial entrepreneur Don Yansen ’63 saw a need, he filled it.Read more.

Jack Carson, a second-year undergraduate at MIT majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, has been named a 2026 Udall Scholar, one of up to 65 undergraduates nationally to receive the prestigious $7,500 award.

The Udall Scholarship honors students who have demonstrated a commitment to the environment, Indigenous health care, or tribal public policy. Carson is only the third MIT student to win this award, and the first to win for tribal policy.

Carson founded Code.Tulsa, a summer technology program designed to introduce Indigenous high school students to computer science and tech careers.

https://news.mit.edu/2026/jack-carson-named-udall-scholar-0507

“So many great ideas are out there for years until someone comes along with the right form factor to succeed,” says Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, chief product officer of MaxMind, a Massachusetts-based company that uses IP-address location data to help prevent fraud.

Course 6 Alum Puts His Stamp on Cyberfraud Prevention Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95 describes his work as chief product officer of MaxMind, a company known for IP-address location data and fraud prevention.Read more.

Every year, the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing share their advanced degree ceremony, and every year we're struck by the joy, tenderness, and pride shared by the graduates whom we've gotten to know so well, and the family members who've come to cheer their accomplishments. Here are a few of our favorite shots from this year's Advanced Degree Ceremony, held on Wednesday, May 27th. Photo credits: Jake Belcher and Beth Versoy.