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June 25, 2021
These new alums of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation Program worked together remotely from across the globe to design thinking machines. -
June 25, 2021
Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration. -
May 20, 2021
Algorithm enables robot teams to complete missions, such as mapping or search-and-rescue, with minimal wasted effort. -
May 7, 2021
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings. -
April 29, 2021
Associate professor Vivienne Sze's research focuses on more-efficient deep neural networks to process video, and more-efficient hardware to run applications. -
March 25, 2021
Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation. -
March 9, 2021
New type of control system may broaden robots’ range of tasks and allow safer interactions with people. -
February 9, 2021
CSAIL's “LaserFactory” system automates the full process for making functional devices in one system. -
January 28, 2021
A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time. -
December 11, 2020
MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types. -
December 11, 2020
MIT study shows the power of adaptive training tools, like a basketball hoop that shrinks and raises as you make shots. -
November 30, 2020
Technologies like robots and artificial intelligence could partner with humans, not oust them from work, research and business leaders say. -
November 3, 2020
New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture. -
October 29, 2020
Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters. -
September 22, 2020
Realtime Robotics has created a controller that helps robots safely move around on the fly. -
September 16, 2020
This summer has seen three new career development chairs appointed within the EECS faculty: Kevin Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Mengjia Yan. Meet the new chairs here. -
September 4, 2020
Top row, L to R: Oliver, Corrigan-Gibbs, Chen. Bottom row, L to R: Yan, Ragan-Kelley 2020 has seen the addition of many new faculty members, including five recent hires within EECS. Learn -
June 10, 2020
Teaching assistants in Robotics: Science and Systems pulled out all the stops to help engineering students race across the finish line this spring. -
June 3, 2020
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) companies have been working for years on developing systems that can incorporate real-life objects into their digitized worlds. With that in mind, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a smart glove that can detect your hand pose, as well as distinguish between more than 30 different household objects. -
October 18, 2016
Senior Sarah Hensley aims to improve Earth's most advanced humanoid robot, in advance of its trip to the Red Planet. -
February 17, 2016
System could help prevent robots from overwhelming human teammates with information. -
September 4, 2015
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems. -
September 1, 2015
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden. -
July 23, 2015
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate. -
June 14, 2015
At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, MIT researchers led by Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, presented a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back. Read more.
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