Human Operator: MIT’s vision for embodied AI and skill accelerationSynopsis: MIT students have developed Human Operator, an AI-powered wearable that gently guides hand movements using electrical muscle stim...
05 May, 2026, 12.35 PM IST
India's digital currency push targets its leaky welfare systemWhile India's early efforts are modest compared with those of China, where more than 200 million people use the e-yuan, the world's most po...
23 Apr, 2026, 10.48 AM IST
India's digital currency push targets its leaky welfare systemIndia is piloting its digital rupee, the e-rupee, for welfare payments. This initiative aims to improve efficiency and reduce corruption in...
23 Apr, 2026, 09.29 AM IST
Mystery deepens as FBI investigates missing US scientists; House Oversight Committee launches parallel probeA series of unexplained deaths and disappearances involving US scientists and government personnel, including a retired Air Force general, ...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.48 AM IST
Déjà Vu? 10 nuclear scientists gone missing or dead in US under mysterious circumstances, nearly a decade after similar incidents in IndiaMysterious disappearances and deaths of at least 10 US scientists since 2023, many linked to national security labs, have sparked alarm. Re...
16 Apr, 2026, 10.47 AM IST
Who are the US scientists linked to NASA and military research vanished or died under unexplained circumstancesA string of baffling deaths and disappearances among US scientists, including a retired Air Force general and NASA JPL researcher, has spar...
09 Apr, 2026, 03.03 PM IST
Kolkata born IITian invents an injectable chip that can treat diseases without surgery: Who is MIT researcher Deblina SarkarKolkata born scientist Deblina Sarkar has developed a breakthrough brain treatment platform called Circulatronics. The technology uses micr...
19 Nov, 2025, 03.16 PM IST
OpenAI finds own product ChatGPT linked to more loneliness, social isolationThe studies, conducted using GPT-40, OpenAI’s multimodal model released in May 2024, raise questions about the emotional consequences of hu...
25 Mar, 2025, 08.45 AM IST
India has been able to manage complex conversations better than US: Tenzin PriyadarshiThe director-ethics at MIT Media Lab weighs in on some of the most important issues that the world faces.
23 Dec, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
TCS sets up open innovation platform to tackle local community challengesThe centre will seek to find ways to reduce the number of school dropouts, improve soil and water health, and ease parking woes in the city...
06 Apr, 2016, 01.31 AM IST
Scientists develop new high-temperature system to 3D print transparent glassResearchers have attempted to 3D print glass objects in the past, but a major obstacle has been the extremely high temperature needed to me...
14 Sep, 2015, 05.55 PM IST
As testimony to success of academic incubators Hyperverge, Zoojoo.be raise $1 million eachTwo startups, both incubated at academic institutions, have raised $1 million each from a band of US-based venture capitalists.
19 Aug, 2015, 05.37 PM IST
Exfinity Venture invests $1 million in Silicon Valley-based LensBricksThe fund invests $1 million-$2 million in start-ups operating in the field of analytics, mobility and cloud.
31 Mar, 2015, 12.55 PM IST
Twitter wants Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make sense of your tweetsA main goal for LSM will be to create new platforms for both individuals and institutions to identify, discuss, and act on pressing societa...
03 Oct, 2014, 06.20 PM IST
Super 30 founder Anand Kumar invited to speak at MIT and HarvardThe programme promotes global social justice through their unparallelled and effective leadership of innovative and sustainable education r...
29 Sep, 2014, 01.55 PM IST
Media Lab Asia seeking help of external companies to evaluate its relevanceMedia Lab Asia was born with the intent of bridging the digital divide and designing internet and wireless technology-enabled development p...
12 Jun, 2014, 06.11 AM IST
- India needs to take R&D lessons from MIT, says geek
ET talks to Vinay Gidwaney, who co-founded two software companies when he was just 19.
08 Mar, 2010, 11.59 AM IST