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Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence: October 2025
An important part of research at MIT's Quest for Intelligence is understanding how people, animals, and machines interact with their surrounding environment. In this issue of our newsletter, we are sharing how and why research in this area happens.
UROP Spotlight: Computational Basis of Everyday Action Planning
To explore the way humans complete simple tasks, Beckett Roberge '28 spent a UROP in the Kanwisher Lab creating a virtual reality simulation of catching a ball. He is now working with Aryan Zoroufi on tracking subjects' movements and comparing them to how different computational techniques catch the ball in the same simulation.
3Q with Nick Roy
Nick Roy's research interests in AI, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and robotics drew him to the Embodied Intelligence Mission.
Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence (June 2025)
After final exams are submitted and Commencement crowds have dispersed, MIT takes a collective deep breath, admires the accomplishments of its outstanding community, and begins planning for the academic year ahead. At the Quest for Intelligence, we are looking back and celebrating the remarkable Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, cheering on our Engineering Team for their hard work building new tools in collaboration with Children Helping Science, and waving goodbye to our incredible UROPs.
Here’s what’s new at the Quest.
Quest UROPs 2024-2025
This year's UROPs performed research with the Language and Embodied Intelligence Missions as well as the Brain-Score platform.