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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. -
June 11, 2015
DARPA Robotics Challenge MIT Team leader Russ Tedrake reports on the real win in the team's sixth placement in last week's competition. The team not only won the overall best-paper award at the 2014 International Conference on Humanoid Robots, but they also accomplished research that will have huge near and longterm payoffs. Read more. -
June 10, 2015
The MIT DARPA Robotics Challenge Team led by Professor Rus Tedrake reached new heights in the June 5-6 international DARPA Robotics Challenge in Pomona California, as they nimbly programmed their Atlas robot to perform a wide range of tasks in one hour. The goal of the event was to develop mobile robots to perform useful tasks in disaster-relief situations — in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Read more. -
May 28, 2015
EECS graduate students Andrew Spielberg and Stuart Baker, and postdoc Mehmet Dogar with EECS Professor and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Daniela Rus have developed a new algorithm that significantly reduces the time it takes for several robots to plan and execute a task. Read more. -
May 21, 2015
A computer vision enabled technology developed by a team of EECS faculty Bill Freeman and Frédo Durand and their students is enabling a new way to identify structural defects in objects. The group will report this latest work at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in June. Read more. -
March 12, 2015
EECS alumna Cynthia Breazeal, SM '93, ScD '00, associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, and members of her group in the Media Lab, the Personal Robotics Group, has developed a system that allows pre-school children to program interactive robots to serve as a introduction to programming principles as well as... Read more.
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