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On July 31, 2026, the Chemistry department announced an industrial recruiting information session with AbbVie, scheduled for August 5, 2026. Also on July 31, the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at MIT, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston Public Library, announced a new installation by MIT CBA researchers Alfonso Parra Rubio and Erik Strand. The installation aims to demonstrate how artists, makers, and researchers are shaping Boston's future economy. Earlier the same day, MIT researchers developed a technique that allows an artificial intelligence model planning a robot’s motion to forecast its future position, enabling seamless transitions between current and subsequent actions, which prevents the slow, jerky movements associated with existing methods. Previously, on July 30, 2026, Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.
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