Text or video is not only form AI can take. In embodied-ai.tech (#CHI2026, Best Paper 🏆) we create an embodied AI that acts via muscle stimulation to perform physical tasks: e.g., place a bike on a bus rack and more! youtube.com/watch?v=pJM2Z8mm… by @yun_yh_ @romainnith

On this day 150 years ago William Sealy Gosset was born. He spent his whole career as a brewer at Guinness, working on a problem the textbooks ignored: how to draw conclusions from tiny samples, like four plots of barley or a handful of hops. The statistics of the day assumed large samples so Gosset invented the statistics of small ones. Guinness barred its employees from publishing after one of them leaked trade secrets, and did not want competitors knowing it used science to brew beer so when Gosset published his method in 1908 he signed it with a pseudonym: Student. Every clinical trial, lab experiment and A/B test that runs a t-test today is using the work of Student. The most famous name in statistics is a fake one.

What a lineup! Incredible workshop at #SIGGRAPH2026

Heading to #SIGGRAPH next month? Come spend Sunday afternoon with us at the Lines & Minds workshop!🧠🎨 With this wonderful group of speakers, we'll explore how visual abstraction connects art, psychology, and computer graphics. Hope to see you there! lines-and-minds.github.io

I am writing a small reflection about serving as technical program chair for CHI. If you have questions that I can try to answer in that essay (I got a bunch in instagram too) send them my way (you can DM, you can email me anon, reply below—whatever, I'll try to incorporate!)

MRI is a cornerstone of modern medicine, allowing doctors to detect & diagnose medical conditions. But did you know that before MRIs became a critical part of medical care, NSF helped lay the groundwork for this widespread tech? brnw.ch/21x3fef #NSFImpacts

We're back! The MIT HCI group has grown, and we couldn't be more excited. A huge welcome to our newest faculty (@mitchellgordon, @huangcza, @ZanaBucinca & @jas_x_flowers) & students joining @arvindsatya1, @karger, Stefanie Mueller, Rob Miller & Daniel Jackson. Give us a follow!

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We're all very proud of Prof. @_yudaitanaka ! p.s.: Prospective students wanting to revolutionize the world of computing interfaces, you should be applying to UT Austin to work with Yudai!

Art Panel starting at 1.30pm in Room 201 with @danoramas Anna Borou Yu, Yalin Wang and Aastha Valecha #CVPRArt #CVPR2026 @CVPR

We are excited to announce that the Grossman Center will host the 2nd edition of the Chicago Symposium on Computational Neuroscience! The symposium will take place on Friday, June 12, at 8:30 am in KCBD 1103. Visit the website to view the schedule: neuroscience.uchicago.edu/ch…

Art Gallery now open in ExHall F 😍 Come to our tour at 11am #CVPRArt #CVPR2026 @CVPR

#NeuroNews New research led by Professor Joshua Jacobs (Department of Neurology) on brain waves could help doctors treat cognitive decline. inc.com/samantha-stevens/thi…

Excited for @teamLab_net to open an exhibit in @UChicago 's Smart Museum in the FALL!! Great opportunity to come visit our campus! チームラボがシカゴ大学内のSmart Museumで秋から展示!!! smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exh…

[1/5] 🏆 Honored that our paper received the #ICRA2026 Best Paper Award on Robot Learning. A simple question motivated this work: Do robot policies really understand viewpoint changes, or are they exploiting visual shortcuts hidden in the data? Modern robot policies are often evaluated across different camera viewpoints. When they succeed, we often conclude that they have learned viewpoint-invariant representations. Our findings suggest that this conclusion can be misleading.

Finding correspondences between images and untextured 3D shapes has a huge modality gap. Our insight: relax the constraint to segment-to-segment correspondence - and suddenly cross-domain matching just works Come say hi 👋 at ExHall F, Poster #584, 6/6, 11:45–13:45!

We already have an art gallery at @CVPR, online and at the conference, opening tomorrow. Check it out! thecvf-art.com

If you can't be at #ICRA2026 to chat with Matt, go to TTIC and see a demo of this in action (videos also at ripl.github.io/HapCompass ). Kudos to Matt and his team for all the hard work on this haptics for teleoperation device. P.s.: Thanks @_yudaitanaka for the photo!