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Katy O’Brien, SDM ’12: the power of engineering and management

February 14, 2012

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.

January 25, 2012

Leaders for Global Operations student David Linders, left, and MBA student Jon Bloom are working on a device to head off foot problems in diabetics.

Idea draws on engineering and business to help diabetics

January 20, 2012

Speed limit for birds

MIT researchers find critical speed above which birds — and drones — are sure to crash.

January 20, 2012

Depth-sensing cameras can produce 'depth maps' like this one, in which distances are depicted as shades on a gray-scale spectrum (lighter objects are closer, darker ones farther away).

3-D cameras for cellphones

Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices.

January 5, 2012

Antonio Torralba, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

Putting the ‘art’ in artificial intelligence

CSAIL associate professor develops AI systems that can interpret images.

December 12, 2011

Participants in an AMP discussion group talk about university-industry partnerships.

Rebuilding American manufacturing

White House working group convenes at MIT to examine how new technologies can create economic growth and more jobs in the United States.

November 30, 2011

At a crossroads

New research predicts which cars are likeliest to run lights at intersections.

November 30, 2011

Nicholas Roy, an MIT associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics

Robots in reality

Nicholas Roy designs robots for real-world challenges.

November 28, 2011

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt gives a talk at the MIT Sloan School of Management on Tuesday.

Google’s Schmidt: ‘Global mind’ offers new opportunities

With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between computers and humans, search engine executive chairman says.

November 15, 2011

CSAIL robots take center stage

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Principal Investigator Daniela Rus collaborated with modern dance company Pilobolus this past year to bring flying robots to the stage.

November 14, 2011

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

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

Using a phone to fly a drone

Pilotless planes at MIT controlled via iPhones in Seattle.