That’s right. Scratch, the MIT-developed language with blocks popular for teaching kids to code. We didn’t mean “from scratch.” We meant IN Scratch. The bootstrap code and Makefile is out ...

This field is where MIT’s release of Scratch 3.0 can open up interesting possibilities. Scratch is a block-based programming language designed for elementary school children, letting them learn ...

Looking to introduce your child to coding? Here's why Scratch should be your go-to first programming language.

Now, there’s potentially a better option: a new system that uses generative AI models in conjunction with a physics simulator ...

In The Jetsons, Rosie the robot could seamlessly switch between cooking, cleaning, and taking out the trash. But in reality, ...

MIT researchers have created a versatile training method that combines diverse data to help robots learn new skills, inspired by large language models. The method aligns data from diverse domains, ...

Inspired by large language models, researchers develop a multimodal training technique that pools diverse data to teach ...

The research could lead to a future where robots are not just specialized tools but flexible assistants that can quickly ...

MIT researchers are pioneering a new method for robot training that could create an all-purpose robot brain for all robot ...

With this method, MIT researchers will align data from varied domains into a shared language that AI models can process.

Now MIT engineers are aiming to give robots a bit of common sense ... a subtask so that the robot can move on without having to go back and start a task from scratch—and without engineers having to ...

To get answers from animals, scientists need to come up with creative experiments to learn why they behave the way they do.