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I used Claude Code along with MATLAB's MCP server to develop this animation that morphs between the MATLAB membrane and a 3D heart. Details at Coding a MATLAB Valentine animation with agentic AI » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink
Show me what you can do!
If you share code, may I suggest putting it in a GitHib repo and posting the link here rather than posting the code directly in the forum? When we tried a similar exercise on Vibe-coded Christmas trees, we posted the code directly to a single discussion thread and quickly brought the forum software to its knees.
How can I found my license I'd and password, so please provide me my id
Over the past few days I noticed a minor change on the MATLAB File Exchange:
For a FEX repository, if you click the 'Files' tab you now get a file-tree–style online manager layout with an 'Open in new tab' hyperlink near the top-left. This is very useful:
If you want to share that specific page externally (e.g., on GitHub), you can simply copy that hyperlink. For .mlx files it provides a perfect preview. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
EXAMPLE:
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Hello! I am a 3rd year mechanical engineering student from IIT Ropar. We are participating in EBAJA 2022. I thank Mathworks for providing the customisable vehicle template https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/79484-simscape-vehicle-templates
I have learnt to customise the models parameters of Bus, Sedan, Trucks, etc using the UI provided. However the vehicle models does not include the BAJA ATV in it which we required the most for the animations and simulation results. I needed some assistance for replacing the given vehicle model with a BAJA ATV.
-Tushar Raut LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-raut-73ba75194/
I wanted to share something I've been thinking about to get your reactions. We all know that most MATLAB users are engineers and scientists, using MATLAB to do engineering and science. Of course, some users are professional software developers who build professional software with MATLAB - either MATLAB-based tools for engineers and scientists, or production software with MATLAB Coder, MATLAB Compiler, or MATLAB Web App Server.
I've spent years puzzling about the very large grey area in between - engineers and scientists who build useful-enough stuff in MATLAB that they want their code to work tomorrow, on somebody else's machine, or maybe for a large number of users. My colleagues and I have taken to calling them "Reluctant Developers". I say "them", but I am 1,000% a reluctant developer.
I first hit this problem while working on my Mech Eng Ph.D. in the late 90s. I built some elaborate MATLAB-based tools to run experiments and analysis in our lab. Several of us relied on them day in and day out. I don't think I was out in the real world for more than a month before my advisor pinged me because my software stopped working. And so began a career of building amazing, useful, and wildly unreliable tools for other MATLAB users.
About a decade ago I noticed that people kept trying to nudge me along - "you should really write tests", "why aren't you using source control". I ignored them. These are things software developers do, and I'm an engineer.
I think it finally clicked for me when I listened to a talk at a MATLAB Expo around 2017. An aerospace engineer gave a talk on how his team had adopted git-based workflows for developing flight control algorithms. An attendee asked "how do you have time to do engineering with all this extra time spent using software development tools like git"? The response was something to the effect of "oh, we actually have more time to do engineering. We've eliminated all of the waste from our unamanaged processes, like multiple people making similar updates or losing track of the best version of an algorithm." I still didn't adopt better practices, but at least I started to get a sense of why I might.
Fast-forward to today. I know lots of users who've picked up software dev tools like they are no big deal, but I know lots more who are still holding onto their ad-hoc workflows as long as they can. I'm on a bit of a campaign to try to change this. I'd like to help MATLAB users recognize when they have problems that are best solved by borrowing tools from our software developer friends, and then give a gentle onramp to using these tools with MATLAB.
I recently published this guide as a start:
Waddya think? Does the idea of Reluctant Developer resonate with you? If you take some time to read the guide, I'd love comments here or give suggestions by creating Issues on the guide on GitHub (there I go, sneaking in some software dev stuff ...)
I recently created a short 5-minute video covering 10 tips for students learning MATLAB. I hope this helps!
New release! MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.5.0 !
The latest version introduces MATLAB nodesktop mode — a feature that lets you run MATLAB without the Desktop UI while still sending outputs directly to your LLM or AI‑powered IDE.
Here's a screenshot from the developer of the feature.
Check out the release here Releases · matlab/matlab-mcp-core-server
Hi everyone,
I'm a biomedical engineering PhD student who uses MATLAB daily for medical image analysis. I noticed that Claude often suggests MATLAB+Python workarounds or thirdparty toolboxesfor tasks that MATLAB can handle natively, or recommends functions that were deprecated several versions ago.
To address this, I created a set of skills that help Claude understand what MATLAB can actually do—especially with newer functions and toolbox-specific capabilities. This way, it can suggest pure MATLAB solutions instead of mixing in Python or relying on outdated approaches.
What I Built
The repo covers Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Stats/ML, and Wavelet toolbox based skills. I tried my best to verify everything against R2025b documentation.
Feedback Welcome
If you try them out, I'd like to hear how it goes. And if you run into errors or have ideas, feel free to create an issue. If you find them useful, a "Star" on the repo would be appreciated. This is my first time putting something like this out there, so any feedback helps.
Also, if anyone is interested in collaborating on an article for the MathWorks blog, I'd be happy to volunteer and collaborate on this topic or related topics together!
I look forward to hearing from you....
Thanks!
Couldn’t catch everything at MATLAB EXPO 2025? You’re not alone. Across keynotes and track talks, there were too many gems for one sitting. For the next 9 weeks, we’ll reveal the "Top 10" sessions attended (workshops excluded)—one per week—so you can binge the best and compare notes with peers.
Starting at #10: Simulation-Driven Development of Autonomous UAVs Using MATLAB
A huge thanks to Dr. Shital S. Chiddarwar from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur who delivered this presentation online at MATLAB EXPO 2025. Are you curious how this workflow accelerates development and boosts reliability?
I got an email message that says all the files I've uploaded to the File Exchange will be given unique names. Are these new names being applied to my files automatically? If so, do I need to download them to get versions with the new name so that if I update them they'll have the new name instead of the name I'm using now?
I've been trying this problem a lot of time and i don't understand why my solution doesnt't work.
In 4 tests i get the error Assertion failed but when i run the code myself i get the diag and antidiag correctly.
function [diag_elements, antidg_elements] = your_fcn_name(x)
[m, n] = size(x);
% Inicializar los vectores de la diagonal y la anti-diagonal
diag_elements = zeros(1, min(m, n));
antidg_elements = zeros(1, min(m, n));
% Extraer los elementos de la diagonal
for i = 1:min(m, n)
diag_elements(i) = x(i, i);
end
% Extraer los elementos de la anti-diagonal
for i = 1:min(m, n)
antidg_elements(i) = x(m-i+1, i);
end
end
DocMaker allows you to create MATLAB toolbox documentation from Markdown documents and MATLAB scripts.
The MathWorks Consulting group have been using it for a while now, and so David Sampson, the director of Application Engineering, felt that it was time to share it with the MATLAB and Simulink community.
David listed its features as:
➡️ write documentation in Markdown not HTML
🏃 run MATLAB code and insert textual and graphical output
📜 no more hand writing XML index files
🕸️ generate documentation for any release from R2021a onwards
💻 view and edit documentation in MATLAB, VS Code, GitHub, GitLab, ...
🎉 automate toolbox documentation generation using MATLAB build tool
📃 fully documented using itself
😎 supports light, dark, and responsive modes
🐣 cute logo
I gave it a try on my mac mini m4. I'm speechless 🤯
I'm planning to start a personal scientific software project. I used to be familiar with Matlab (quite some time ago), so Matlab would be my first choice. But I keep hearing that Matlab is old stuff and I should use Julia or something like that. I wouldn't find learning Julia difficult, so familiarity with Matlab is not an important factor. Neither is cost, because I can afford a home license for Matlab, Simulink and a few toolboxes. So I'm thinking. Please give me your input! Why should I use Matlab in 2025 instead of alternatives?
This just came out. @Michelle Hirsch spoke to Jousef Murad and answer his questions about the big change in the desktop in R2025a and explained what was going on behind the scene. Enjoy!
The Big MATLAB Update: Dark Mode, Cloud & the Future of Engineering - Michelle Hirsch
A coworker shared with me a hilarious Instagram post today. A brave bro posted a short video showing his MATLAB code… casually throwing 49,000 errors!
Surprisingly, the video went virial and recieved 250,000+ likes and 800+ comments. You really never know what the Instagram algorithm is thinking, but apparently “my code is absolutely cooked” is a universal developer experience 😂
Last note: Can someone please help this Bro fix his code?
In the sequence of previous suggestion in Meta Cody comment for the 'My Problems' page, I also suggest to add a red alert for new comments in 'My Groups' page.
Thank you in advance.
AI-assisted software development moves pretty fast! I recently noticed everyone in the AI community talking about a Simpson's character. I originally thought it was some joke-meme that I didn't understand but it turns out to be an AI development methodology claude-code/plugins/ralph-wiggum/README.md at main · anthropics/claude-code
I noticed that @Toshiaki Takeuchi mentioned it in my recent interview of him over at The MATLAB blog https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2026/01/26/matlab-agentic-ai-the-workflow-that-actually-works/
Has anyone here tried this yet?
In 2025, we saw the growing impact of GenAI on site traffic and user behavior across the entire technical landscape. Amid all this change, MATLAB Central continued to stand out as a trusted home for MATLAB and Simulink users. More than 11 million unique visitors in 2025 came to MATLAB Central to ask questions, share code, learn, and connect with one another.
Let’s celebrate what made 2025 memorable across three key areas: people, content, and events.
People
In 2025, nearly 20,000 contributors participated across the community. We’d like to spotlight a few standout contributors:
- @Sam Chak earned the Most Accepted Answers Badge for both 2024 and 2025. Sam is a rising star in MATLAB Answers with 2,000+ answers and 1,000+ votes.
- @Rodney Tan has been actively contributing files to File Exchange. In 2025, his submissions got almost 20,000 downloads!
- @Dyuman Joshi was recognized as a top contributor on both Cody and Answers. Many may not know that Dyuman is also a Cody moderator, doing tremendous behind-the-scenes moderation work to keep the platform running smoothly.
- A warm welcome to @Steve Eddins, who joined the Community Advisory Board. Steve brings a unique perspective as a former MathWorker and long-time top community contributor.
- Congratulations to @Walter Roberson on reaching 100 followers! MATLAB Central thrives on people-to-people connections, and we’d love to see even more of these relationships grow.
Of course, there are many contributors we didn’t mention here—thank you all for your outstanding contributions and for making the community what it is.
Content
Our high-quality community content not only attracts users but also helps power the broader GenAI ecosystem.
Popular Blog Post & File Exchange Submission
- Zoomed Axes, submitted by @Caleb Thomas, enables zoomed-in views of selected regions in a plot.This submission was featured in the Pick of the Week blog post, “MATLAB Zoomed Axes: Showing zoomed-in regions of a 2D plot,” which generated 5,000 views in just one month.
Popular Discussion Post
- What did MATLAB/Simulink users wait for most in 2025? It's R2025a! “Where is MATLAB R2025a?” became the most-viewed discussion post, with 10,000 views and 30 comments. Thanks for your patience — MATLAB R2025a turned out to be one of the biggest releases we’ve ever delivered.
Most Viewed Question
- “How do I create a for loop in MATLAB?” was the most-viewed community question of the year. It’s a fun reminder that even as MATLAB evolves, the basics remain essential — and always in demand.
Most Voted Poll
- “Did you know there is an official MATLAB certification?”, created by @goc3, was the most-voted poll of 2025.While 50% of respondents voted “No”, it’s exciting to see 3% are certified MATLAB Professionals. Will you be one of them in 2026?
Events
The Cody Contest 2025 brought teams together to tackle challenging but fun Cody problems. During the contest:
- 20,000+ solutions were submitted
- 20+ tips & tricks articles were shared by top players
While the contest has ended, you can still challenge yourself with the fun contest problem group. If you get stuck, the tips & tricks articles are a great resource—and you’ll be amazed by the creativity and skill of the contributors.
Thank you for being part of an incredible 2025. Your curiosity, generosity, and expertise are what make MATLAB Central a trusted home for millions—and we look forward to learning and growing together in 2026.
Anthropic has just announced Claude’s Constitution to govern Claude’s behavior in anticipation of a continued ramp-up to AGI abilities. Amusing me just now, just as this constitution was announced, I was encountering a wee moral dilemma myself with Claude.
Claude and I were trying to transfer all of Claude’s abilities and knowledge for controlling macOS and iPhone apps in my setup (See A universal agentic AI for your laptop and beyond) to the Perplexity App. My macOS Perplexity App is configured with the full suite of MCP services available to my Claude App, but I hadn’t yet exercised these with Perplexity App. Oddly, all but Playwright failed to work despite our many experiments and searches for information at Perplexity and elsewhere.
I suspect that Perplexity built into the macOS app all the hooks for MCP, but became gun-shy for security reasons and enforced constraints so none of its models (not even the very model Claude App was running) can execute MCP-related commands, oddly except those for PlayWright. The Perplexity App even offers a few of its own MCP connectors, but these are also non-functional. It is possible we missed something. These limitations appear to be undocumented.
Pulling our hair out, Claude and I were wondering how such constraints might be implemented, and Claude suggested an experiment and then a possible workaround. At that point, I had to pause and say, “No, we are not going there.” No, I won’t tell you the suggested workaround. No, we didn’t try it. Tempting in the moment, but no.
Be safe. And be a good person. Don’t let your enthusiasm reign unbridled.
Disclosure: The author has no direct financial interest in Anthropic, and loves Perplexity App and Comet too, but his son (a philosopher by training) is the lead author on this draft of the Constitution, and overuses the phrase “broadly speaking” in my opinion.
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