One giant leap for the mini cheetah
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
Cynthia Breazeal named senior associate dean for open learning
Social robotics and artificial intelligence pioneer will oversee business units and help to guide innovative learning initiatives.
New fibers can make breath-regulating garments
“Robotic” textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes.
Blockchain technology could provide secure communications for robot teams
The transaction-based communications system ensures robot teams achieve their goal even if some robots are hacked.
A robot that finds lost items
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.
Making self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
PhD student Heng Yang is developing algorithms to help driverless vehicles quickly and accurately assess their surroundings.
Study: As a population gets older, automation accelerates
Economists find companies’ adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor.
Making machines that make robots, and robots that make themselves
PhD student Martin Nisser wants to democratize hardware by making it easier to build and customize.
Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs
System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.
System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds
New algorithm could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue.
Reimagining an iconic design class
Faculty and staff of 2.007 reworked the mechanical engineering class and its famous final robot competition so students could participate remotely.
Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Contact-aware robot design
A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.
Getting dressed with help from robots
A human-aware motion planning algorithm addresses the safety gap in collaboration between robots and humans.