Flexible design enables body-morphing capability Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each... Read more
Instead of looking for a helping hand, how about a helping robot? MIT Professor Julie Shah claims the factory floor of the future may be full of robots and humans working side by side, each... 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 project could have far reaching implications for a variety of fields. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are desig... Read more