New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items To reduce waste, the Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress. Each component of these pieces can be replaced, rearranged, or restyled.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/refa....shion-software-desig

Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects After being trained with this technique, vision-language models can better identify a unique item in a new scene.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/meth....od-teaches-generativ

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool Acting as a “virtual spectrometer,” SpectroGen generates spectroscopic data in any modality, such as X-ray or infrared, to quickly assess a material’s quality.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/chec....king-quality-materia

Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code Co-founded by an MIT alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/help....ing-scientists-run-c

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots New tool from MIT CSAIL creates realistic virtual kitchens and living rooms where simulated robots can interact with models of real-world objects, scaling up training data for robot foundation models.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/usin....g-generative-ai-dive