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Based on simulations, the researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can combine multiple modules as shown above. Here, three modules are mounted on a base of silicon rubber. The overall unit bends freely, so it can conform and adhere tightly to a curved surface such as the outside of a pipe. Despite their proximity, the three modules operate independently with no interference.

Helping robots hold on

MIT researchers design a ‘controllable adhesion system’ for underwater robots.

November 10, 2011

'Lateral lines' in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines.

Going with the flow

Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels.

November 9, 2011

Aude Oliva, a principal investigator in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and an associate professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Oliva explores new ground in computational perception at CSAIL

Neuroscientist looks forward to collaborative studies of visual perception in the brain and its computational applications.

November 8, 2011

People on a boat lowering a submersible vehicle

Navigating blindfolded

Advanced mathematical techniques enable AUVs to survey large, complex and cluttered seascapes.

November 8, 2011

AUVs: From idea to implementation

One day, researchers predict, these robots will be able to do tasks without a human in the loop.

November 7, 2011

The MIT Sloan School of Management team, from left to right: R.J. Andrews, MBA '13; Gautham Iyer, MBA '12; and Ari Oxman, MBA '13.

Sports categories, buzzer stymie MIT Sloan team in 'Jeopardy!' match against Harvard, IBM Watson computer

November 1, 2011

Game puts artificial intelligence in the mind of the beholder

What if developing certain kinds of AI didn’t have to be so laborious?

October 31, 2011

David Clark, senior research scientist with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is the recipient of the Oxford Internet Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his intellectual and institutional contributions to the advancement of the Internet.

David Clark awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Oxford Internet Institute

October 25, 2011

Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

Abelson named SIGCSE award winner

October 25, 2011

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Professor Patrick Winston

Unlocking the key to human intelligence

October 19, 2011

Computer science gives a boost to heart health

New technique searches for subtle indicators of risk hidden in a patient’s EKG.

October 13, 2011

MERS tackles the human-robot divide

October 11, 2011

An oracle for object-oriented programmers

By automatically cataloging connections between software 'objects,' a new system orients programmers joining large software projects in midstream.

October 7, 2011

Just some of the companies that have spun out from MIT's work and its people.

Classes and academic research help launch companies

A variety of course offerings are devoted to spurring new ventures.

October 3, 2011

Gilbert Strang, the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics

MIT announces Professor Gilbert Strang as first MathWorks Professor of Mathematics

Endowment underscores value commercial industry places on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

September 26, 2011

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