MIT News on 17 September describes a robot optics table that fetches mirrors and lenses in coded cases, lines them up, then breaks the stack down. One demonstration stood up a bench laser through fifty robot motions in half an hour and recovered the beam after knocks. Soljacic said alignments can run all night. Live Science and Science News homepages this slot skipped that lab.
MIT News says the flexible bench stacked optics, tuned them, then cleared the table. One demonstration raised a bench laser through 50 robot motions in 30 minutes. After knocks, the same stack recovered the beam. The page is dated 17 September 2026. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
A robot arm handles optics sitting in purpose-built housings marked with QR codes, MIT News says. The named group includes Seou Choi and Sachin Vaidya at MIT, plus Uddin at Nokia Bell Labs and Shuvo at Arizona State. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
Marin Soljacic said a robot can keep doing the same alignments all night. The group is also writing a remote app for sending lab recipes from outside campus. MIT News presents this as an institutional conference-system note, not as a newly dated journal paper in this slot. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
