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Fox News' Bret Baier has the latest on concerns over the retirement of the International Space Station on'Special Report.' Before the International Space Station was launched into orbit in 1998, the U.S. signed a document with several other countries to agree to the peaceful use of the orbital laboratory. The agreement included Russia, Japan, Canada and 11 European countries. China was left out of the plan. Nearly a decade later, China expressed interest in joining those on board the space station.

Fueled by advances in artificial intelligence, robotic process automation is impacting virtually every sector of the economy (McKinsey Global Institute 2017). The logistics sector lies at the core of this transformation: autonomous mobile robots are being deployed in tens of thousands of manufacturing and distribution facilities with a near-term $10-50 billion market potential (Grand View Research 2021, ABI Research 2021). A predominant operating model, shown in Figure 1, involves part-to-picker warehousing operations, which relies on robotic agents transporting shelves of inventory from a storage location to a workstation for a human operator to fulfill orders and back to a storage location. Robotic operations can improve throughput and working conditions by letting human workers focus on the more productive tasks, while improving system reliability. Yet, to truly take advantage of automation opportunities, modern warehousing systems require dedicated decision support tools to manage large robotic fleets and human-robot interactions in high-density operations. At the core of robotic process automation lies the computer vision, sensing, mapping and robotic technologies to empower autonomous agents--in our case, robots capable to move shelves of inventory. A subsequent problem involves control mechanisms to coordinate multiagent systems--in our case, to avoid conflicts and collisions between robots.

From Interstellar to the Martian, human space exploration has been a key feature in science fiction blockbusters throughout the years. Space experts claim human space exploration will begin with'technauts' who build'gateways' near Earth. These will help a small number of human explorers build colonies on the moon and then Mars, they say. To envision what these could look like, DailyMail.com Space experts claim human space exploration will begin with'technauts' who build'gateways' near Earth.

As more than 90 students in MIT's SuperUROP Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunites Program flowed into a year-end certificates presentation event on May 7 at the Media Lab Skyline Room, they looked quite ready to celebrate a year of work on intense research collaborations with faculty advisors, supported as by the generous backing of industry and private sponsors. Senior Ava Soleimany says she has gained a "much-nuanced understanding of what exactly research involves." With an interest in the computational aspects of synthetic biology and its medical applications, Soleimany applied to be a SuperUROP in spring 2014 in Professor Timothy Lu's Synthetic Biology Group. She was able to extend her existing Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project into a SuperUROP. "It allowed me to hit the ground running in the fall while many of my peers were still sorting out the details of their projects," she notes.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced today a significant expansion of the Institute's programs in learning research and online and digital education -- from pre-kindergarten through residential higher education and lifelong learning -- that fulfills a number of recommendations made in 2014 by the Institute-Wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education. Most notably, Reif announced the creation of the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), to be led by Professor John Gabrieli, and a new effort to increase MIT's ability to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning by students from pre-kindergarten through high school (pK-12), to be led by Professor Angela Belcher. The announcement also included a program to support faculty innovations in MIT residential education and new work to enhance MIT's continuing education programs. In keeping with the high priority of these new efforts and of the entire field of digital learning, Professor Sanjay Sarma, now dean of digital learning, will oversee them in the newly created position of vice president for open learning, reporting directly to Reif. Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart, who will share responsibility with Sarma for several aspects of this work, predicts that the programs announced today will have "far-reaching and tremendous implications for education -- for MIT students as well as for students not at MIT."