AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoAI in Boston Health Care: Google’s AMIE chatbot interviewed 98 Boston primary-care patients under physician supervision, with no safety stop reported — an early test of AI in clinical visits. MIT Robotics: Researchers developed a motion-planning method that doubled robot speed on tasks such as pick-and-place, without adding computing demands. New England Fisheries: NOAA awarded 14 scallop research grants, including work expanding Georges Bank surveys and using AI to process survey images. Shared Geothermal: A Massachusetts pilot connects 135 homes to a shared geothermal loop, lowering bills for participants while raising questions about costs borne by other utility customers. Apollo Legacy: Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the software team for NASA’s Apollo program, has died at 90.
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