MIT Scientists Build Robotic Optics Laboratory
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists build a robotic optics laboratory.
- A2
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a robotic optics laboratory.
- B1
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a robotic optics laboratory.
- B2
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a robotic optics laboratory that can automatically put together and adjust equipment for light-based experiments.
- C1
Testing materials for screens and solar panels usually requires scientists to spend months carefully adjusting delicate light equipment by hand.
- C2
Testing materials for screens and solar panels usually requires scientists to spend months carefully adjusting delicate light equipment by hand.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- adjust
- To change something slightly so that it works better or is in the correct position.
- equipment
- The tools, machines, or other things that you need for a particular job or activity.
- joint
- A place where two parts of a machine or body are connected and can bend.
- bounce
- To hit a surface and then move quickly away from it.
- interface
- The way a computer program shows information to a user and lets them interact with it.
- remotely
- From a distance, usually using a computer or electronic connection.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.