With enough of the right kind of data you can teach new robots new tricks. Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash
In the 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons, Rosie the robotic maid seamlessly switches from vacuuming the house to cooking dinner to taking out the trash. But in real life, training a general-purpose robot remains a major challenge.
With SymGen, an LLM generates responses with citations that point directly to the place in a source document, such as a given cell in a database. Credit: MIT News; iStock
Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are far from perfect. These artificial intelligence models sometimes “hallucinate” by generating incorrect or unsupported information in response to a query.
For an organization to develop a sustainable, continuous improvement culture, it must, as we say at Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership, involve everybody, every day—i.e., process improvement mus
You should be paying as much attention to your cybersecurity as you are to this picture. Credit: “Cyberattacks Tokyo” by PLANETART
Remote work is now an essential part of the modern workplace, offering flexibility and convenience to millions of employees worldwide. However, with this shift to home offices and flexible workspaces comes a new set of security challenges.
You can meet challenges in manufacturing and thrive. Photo by Rob Lambert on Unsplash
A nonprofit serving manufacturers that has generously supported the Baldrige Enterprise is AME (Association for Manufacturing Excellence), which comprises 4,000 manufacturing members ranging from executive
MIT alumni-founded Ambience is being used across roughly 40 health systems in the U.S. by clinicians in over 100 subspecialties. Image credit: iStock
Most doctors go into medicine because they want to help patients.
A few days after returning from a speaking engagement at the Innovate for Excellence Summit in Chicago last September, I spoke to Susan, an old classmate.
This PM-HIP can was printed on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s MedUSA wire-arc additive manufacturing machine. The can will be used to create an impeller for a hydropower impeller to demonstrate a new approach for creating large-scale clean energy components. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Department of Energy
Researchers at the U.S.
“Our work demonstrates that engineering the contact and growth of bubbles on electrodes can have dramatic effects,” says professor Kripa Varanasi. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT
Industrial electrochemical processes that use electrodes to produce fuels and chemical products are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area available for the active reaction.
Digital documentation can change quality control in manufacturing for the better. Photo by Battlecreek Coffee Roasters on Unsplash
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