Laura Dodds from the Signal Kinetics group and Fangzheng Liu from the Responsive Environments group were recognized during the MIT–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Day 2025: Dodds received first place, and Liu was awarded third place in the graduate student pitch competition.
The MIT–Amazon Science Hub, launched in October 2021 and hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, connects researchers across disciplines to generate new computing and AI tools, technologies, and approaches. It also fosters an inclusive research community to ensure the benefits of this work are widely shared.