A prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest automatically maps the wearer’s environment, recognizing movement between floors. MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system t... Read more
OpenCourseWare Initiative It’s midnight, and Anant Agarwal is still at his computer. He’s not, however, tying up administrative loose ends before stepping down as director of MIT’s Computer... Read more
M.I.T. researchers experiment with modular bots smart enough to morph into things placed near them Dynamically self-assembling robots would certainly be more versatile than those preassemble... Read more
The individual grains would pass messages back and forth and selectively attach to each other to form a three-dimensional object New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can as... Read more
With a single piece of inexpensive hardware — a multicolored glove — MIT researchers are making Minority Report-style interfaces more accessible. Ever since Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi mo... Read more
If they were real, the Transformers harking from Cybertron would be considered pretty remarkable pieces of machinery. But their transforming abilities are limited to just two forms. By combi... Read more