The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
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J.J. Abrams: 'It’s like driving in the fog'
Movie and television writer-producer shares his thoughts on how his production company compares with MIT’s Media Lab.
Sibling power
Siblings Andrew and Jennifer Barry have not only managed to maintain a close friendship into their adult years, but are also both studying robotics at CSAIL
Department snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning.
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams selected from national pool of student applicants
16 high school teams awarded up to $10,000 in grants to bring invention ideas to life.
Department snapshot: Mechanical Engineering
More MechE students choose to design their own education.
Department snapshot: Aeronautics and Astronautics
AeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments.
Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
A prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest automatically maps the wearer’s environment, recognizing movement between floors.
NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission
Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.
Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle
Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts.
Connoisseur of chaos
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Soft autonomous robot inches along like an earthworm
Flexible design enables body-morphing capability.