Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes. In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanis... Read more
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science a... Read more
Swapping of roles improves efficiency as well as robots’ confidence and humans’ trust. Spending a day in someone else’s shoes can help us to learn what makes them tick. Now the same approach... Read more
Eduardo Torres-Jara wants to expand the kinds of tasks robots can perform, by giving them more sensitive fingers. And his startup, Robot Rebuilt, is out making the rounds of Boston venture c... Read more
The MIT researchers’ work could lead to robotic systems that can be dynamically reconfigured to do many different jobs rather than repeating a fixed function, and that can be produced much m... Read more
TECHNOLOGY tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s and smartphones in the last five years. Computing may be on the... Read more
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
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