Computers and artificial intelligence

Researchers have developed new software that can be integrated with existing hardware to enable people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons to walk in a safer, more natural manner on different types of terrain.

Tara Pham’s company, Numina, generates the granular data that cities require to design bike and pedestrian-friendly roads and neighborhoods. You could say it all got started by accident two of them, as a matter of fact.

Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models.