The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
Media Lab
New books on the shelf from SA+P
Recent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni
Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ live
Civic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.
Finding good music in noisy online markets
MIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.
Is that smile real or fake?
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.
Gauging seizures’ severity
Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care.
Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize
Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
A camera that peers around corners
A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight.
Video: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Media Lab associate professor’s massive modular synthesizer now on exhibit in the MIT Museum.