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December 22, 2025

“Wait, we have the tech skills to build that”

From robotics to apps like “NerdXing,” senior Julianna Schneider is building technologies to solve problems in her community.

December 5, 2025

Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting

Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed machines that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistic centers.

December 5, 2025

MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.

October 24, 2025

Pulkit Agrawal receives the IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award

Agrawal received the award for his work in “robot learning, self-supervised and sim-to-real policy learning, agile locomotion, and dexterous manipulation,” according to the organization.

July 28, 2025

Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any robot from a single camera, without any other sensors.

July 21, 2025

Simulation-based pipeline tailors training data for dexterous robots

The PhysicsGen system, developed by MIT researchers, helps robots handle items in homes and factories by tailoring training data to a particular machine.

June 30, 2025

Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely

MIT CSAIL researchers combined GenAI and a physics simulation engine to refine robot designs. The result: a machine that out-jumped a robot designed by humans.

Thesis Defense: Ravi Tejwani

Thesis Defense: Robot Guidance ControlSpeaker: Ravi TejwaniAbstract: When human instructors guide learners through motor tasks, they naturally coordinate physical touch with verbal explanations – yet robots applying physical

June 6, 2025

New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds

Researchers developed an algorithm that lets a robot “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously.

May 9, 2025

System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling

With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.