Making Autonomous Driving a Reality Everywhere in the World
Arturo Deza Co-founder and CEO, Artificio
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, draws on his forthcoming book The First Week to examine the seven-day week as a powerful but overlooked social innovation. Framing the week as a “temporal platform,” he explores how innovations spread only after reaching critical mass and distills lessons for leaders on early adopters, commitment, mobility, and platform thinking beyond technology.
Juejun Hu, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores chip-scale infrared photonic technologies that turn invisible light into powerful tools for sensing and imaging. His work brings lab-grade spectroscopy and advanced optics onto tiny, low-cost chips—enabling real-time chemical detection, flat ultra-thin lenses, and adaptive imaging systems. With several platforms already commercialized, the research highlights how infrared photonics is opening a new frontier in environmental monitoring, industry, and everyday vision technologies.
Mark Bathe, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showcases how programmable DNA can be used as a nanoscale construction material to advance medicine and computing. His work spans DNA-based virus-like particles for next-generation immunotherapies, molecular “wet” data storage that preserves genomes without cold-chain logistics, and DNA-guided semiconductor patterning for quantum technologies—highlighting real-world translation from lab research to industry-shaping startups.
Kevin Chen, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents breakthroughs in bio-inspired micro-flying robots that combine soft artificial muscles with rigid structures to achieve agile, collision-resistant flight. The work demonstrates long-duration hovering, rapid aerial maneuvers, and early integration of onboard sensors and electronics—pointing toward a new generation of tiny, autonomous aerial robots that are both resilient and highly controllable.
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