MIT Technology Review

Humanoid robots

The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

Humanoid robot breakthroughs face practical roadblocks before widespread deployment.

MIT Technology Review 7h ago

robotics, timelines

AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

MIT Technology Review argues that AI robotics breakthroughs will take years to affect daily life.

MIT Technology Review 11h ago

Industrial AI, autonomous systems

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Foundation models and physical AI are automating complex industrial tasks, raising new safety and oversight questions.

MIT Technology Review 11h ago

medical AI claims

Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk claim weight-loss drugs slow biological aging based on molecular clocks.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago also at MIT Technology Review

energy storage

Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries

Moment Energy repurposes used EV batteries into grid storage containers domestically.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

electric vehicles

BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses

BasiGo replaces diesel buses with electric ones across sub-Saharan Africa using pay-per-use model.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

flood defense

WaveSave and its portable rubber dam

WaveSave offers a portable rubber dam for flood protection and freshwater storage.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

industrial materials

Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals

Brimstone develops a process to reduce cement emissions and produce critical minerals domestically.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

energy storage

Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries

Energy Dome uses compressed carbon dioxide in grid batteries for up to 24 hours storage.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

nuclear technology

X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors

X-energy develops small modular helium-cooled nuclear reactors for industrial manufacturers.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

battery technology

Form Energy and its iron batteries

Form Energy builds iron batteries for multi-day energy storage and signs commercial deals.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

battery technology

WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

WeLion New Energy develops semi-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles and drones.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

climate technology

Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch

MIT Technology Review explains its process for selecting promising climate tech companies.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago

climate technology

2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch Opens at the publisher in a new tab

MIT Technology Review identifies 10 climate tech companies to watch in 2026.

MIT Technology Review 2d ago also at MIT Technology Review

AI agents

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

Enterprise AI agents lack contextual knowledge despite having access to abundant data.

MIT Technology Review 3d ago

agentic AI

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

Enterprise predictive systems must now act autonomously while remaining aligned with business objectives.

MIT Technology Review 3d ago

AI adoption sentiment

People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

Opinion piece explores contradiction between public skepticism of AI and continued engagement with AI products.

MIT Technology Review 3d ago

AI capabilities

EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything

Google research chief outlines AI applications across biology, infrastructure, manufacturing and science.

MIT Technology Review 3d ago also at MIT Technology Review

Enterprise AI adoption

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

Enterprise AI adoption accelerates as model capabilities advance and costs fall.

MIT Technology Review 6d ago

longevity research

A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

A longevity competition rewards participants for biological age reduction through experimental interventions.

MIT Technology Review 6d ago

LLM reasoning capabilities

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

Essay argues large language models do not reason, using AlphaGo's historic Go victory as reference point.

MIT Technology Review 6d ago also at MIT Technology Review

AI neuroscience

The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

AI tool can reconstruct visual information from brain scans in mind-reading application.

MIT Technology Review 1w ago

brain-computer interfaces

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan

AI tool reconstructs images from brain scans with high precision, bidirectionally linking visual perception to neural activity.

MIT Technology Review 1w ago

grid energy storage

How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid

Smaller distributed batteries offer regulatory path to expand grid storage capacity in cities like New York.

MIT Technology Review 1w ago

The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries

BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses

WaveSave and its portable rubber dam

Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals

Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries

X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors

Form Energy and its iron batteries

WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch

2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan

How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid

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