Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments
The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments. Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse. It comes packaged with the skills it was trained on, like placing an object,...
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Title IX Athletics Investigation of Minneapolis Public School District
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that the Minneapolis Public School District in Minnesota has entered into an agreement to ensure compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 with respect to the...
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities Names 2024 HBCU Scholars
`The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) is proud to announce the 2024 cohort of HBCU Scholars, marking the 10th anniversary of this transformative...
Creative Journey
Less opportunities for my art now than I used to receive, and I get it, everyone gets tired of what sticks around. But that’s the thing about me. I stick around. Stubbornly. Obsessively. With growth and change and good times & bad. Just a reminder for when you...
U.S. Department of Education Announces Schedule and New Process to Launch 2025-26 FAFSA Form
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced that the 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA® form) will be launched through a new process. Starting on October 1, the Department will release the 2025-26 FAFSA form for testing with a...
Explore careers in clean energy: Enter the Power Your Future Challenge
Today, the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to launch the Power Your Future Challenge — the second challenge in its annual CTE Momentum series to prepare high school students for rewarding careers and increase access to career and technical education. The...
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Complaint Against Drexel University Alleging Antisemitic Discrimination
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that Drexel University in Pennsylvania has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) when responding to allegations...
Secretary Cardona Congratulates 2024 President’s Education Awards Program Recipients
Elementary, middle and high school graduates across all U.S. states, outlying areas, and military bases selected by principals for academic achievement recognition
Precision home robots learn with real-to-sim-to-real
At the top of many automation wish lists is a particularly time-consuming task: chores. The moonshot of many roboticists is cooking up the proper hardware and software combination so that a machine can learn “generalist” policies (the rules and strategies that guide...
Helping Olympic athletes optimize their performance, one stride at a time
The Olympics is all about pushing the frontiers of human performance. As some athletes prepared for the Paris 2024 games, that included using a new technology developed at MIT.nano. The technology was created by Striv (pronounced “strive”), a startup whose founder...