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How to Engineer an AI Skill for MATLAB

Posted by Mike Croucher, May 11, 2026

Today's guest blogger is Rikin Mehta. Rikin is a Software Engineer on the Database Toolbox team at MathWorks. In this post, he shares the story behind engineering the ORM Skill for the MATLAB Agentic... read more >>

Category:: artificial intelligence (AI),; Best Practice,; Database,; Guest posts,; MCP,; Tutorials

MathWorks Call for Research Proposals: Latest News

Posted by Mike Croucher, May 7, 2026

Today’s guest blogger is Deepak Bhatia. Deepak is the Program Manager of the MathWorks Call for Research Proposals program. In March 2025 MathWorks launched the MathWorks Call for Research Proposals... read more >>

Category:: Engineered systems,; Funding,; Guest posts,; Research

Toolbox-Specific AI Skills for MATLAB: Faster, Cheaper, More Reliable Code Generation from Claude, Gemini and friends

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 30, 2026

TL:DR: The latest update of the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit includes the first of a set of advanced toolbox-specific skills that allow AI agents to perform various tasks more quickly, cheaply and... read more >>

Category:: artificial intelligence (AI),; Gen-AI,; MCP,; New Features,; Tutorials

MATLAB R2026a has been released – What’s new? 8

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 21, 2026

Every MATLAB release has an enormous number of new features across over a hundred different toolboxes and blocksets; far too many to discuss in a single blog post. So, I don't even try! What I do is... read more >>

Category:: New Features,; New Release

How to update the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit so that it uses the new version of MATLAB: R2026a 2

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 17, 2026

MATLAB R2026a was released on Wednesday and I'm still writing my tour of the the new features. In the meantime, I wanted to show you how easy it is to update your AI to use this new version thanks... read more >>

Category:: artificial intelligence (AI),; MCP,; New Features,; New Release,; Tutorials

Introducing the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit 5

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 13, 2026

TL;DR - MathWorks have released the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit which will significantly improve the life of anyone who is using MATLAB and Simulink with agentic AI systems such as Claude Code or OpenAI... read more >>

Category:: artificial intelligence (AI),; Gen-AI,; MCP,; New Features,; New Release

NASA’s Artemis II mission and MATLAB

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 6, 2026

I was born in 1977. This was five years after the last crewed moon flight and so whilst I grew up hearing about the moon landings, I never experienced them. On April 2nd this year, that changed when... read more >>

Category:: Engineered systems,; Space

k-Wave team releases new toolbox version in collaboration with UCL’s RSE group

Posted by Mike Croucher, March 12, 2026

k-Wave is a MATLAB community toolbox with a track record that includes over 2,500 citations on Google Scholar and over 7,600 downloads on File Exchange. It is built for the "time-domain simulation of... read more >>

Category:: Community Toolboxes,; Funding,; Interviews,; Open Science,; Open Source,; RSE

Building an app for training deep learning models with App Designer

Posted by Mike Croucher, February 27, 2026

Today's guest blogger is Phil Brown. Phil is a development lead on the Deep Learning Toolbox, working on app development. In this blog post he describes how to build an App Designer app for training... read more >>

Category:: Apps,; Deep Learning

Faster vector concatenation in MATLAB R2024b and later 1

Posted by Mike Croucher, February 18, 2026

At MathWorks, we are constantly working on making MATLAB faster. Most of the speed-ups that we achieve are discussed in the release notes but some slip through the net -- usually because they were... read more >>

Category:: MATLAB Programming Language,; New Features,; performance