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We address fundamental problems in designing more capable robots and controlling them to interact intelligently with people, the environment and each other.
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Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration. -
These new alums of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation Program worked together remotely from across the globe to design thinking machines. -
Algorithm enables robot teams to complete missions, such as mapping or search-and-rescue, with minimal wasted effort. -
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings. -
Associate professor Vivienne Sze's research focuses on more-efficient deep neural networks to process video, and more-efficient hardware to run applications. -
Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation. -
New type of control system may broaden robots’ range of tasks and allow safer interactions with people. -
CSAIL's “LaserFactory” system automates the full process for making functional devices in one system. -
A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time. -
MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types. -
MIT study shows the power of adaptive training tools, like a basketball hoop that shrinks and raises as you make shots. -
Technologies like robots and artificial intelligence could partner with humans, not oust them from work, research and business leaders say. -
New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture. -
Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters. -
Realtime Robotics has created a controller that helps robots safely move around on the fly. -
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. -
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Teaching assistants in Robotics: Science and Systems pulled out all the stops to help engineering students race across the finish line this spring. -
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. -
Made of silicone rubber, CSAIL’s “SoFi” could enable a closer study of aquatic life. -
The CSAIL director is being recognized for her pioneering work in robotic systems. -
CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars. -
Balakrishnan and Rus join nine other MIT professors admitted to the prestigious honor society. -
Robotics Industry Association recognizes professor's leadership as a researcher, innovator, and educator. -
Professors Thomas Heldt, Aleksander Madry, Daniel Sanchez, and Vivienne Sze are promoted to the rank of Associate Professor without Tenure, effective July 1, 2017.
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