Cookies, anyone?
Graduate student Mario Bollini of Professor Daniela Rus' Distributed Robotics Lab is currently programming the PR2 robot to bake chocolate chip cookies.
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President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
'Our Great Dome travels with you, no matter where you stand on the face of the Earth.'
Honing household helpers
MIT computer scientists work toward improving robots’ ability to plan and perform complex actions, domestically and elsewhere.
MIT Sea Grant holds Sea Perch Institute Challenge
More than 300 middle and high school students build vehicles to address a simulated deep-water oil spill
How to control complex networks
New algorithm offers ability to influence systems such as living cells or social networks.
Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
Speeding swarms of sensor robots
A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.
Thousands spend Saturday at MIT
‘Under the Dome’ showcases discovery and innovation; first open house in decades.
Exploring exploration
From deep space to deep sea, two-day symposium examined MIT’s impacts and innovations.
Origami: Not just for paper anymore
DNA, folded into complex shapes, could have a big impact on nanotechnology.
Come explore MIT
'Under the Dome,' the Institute's first open house in more than 30 years, features blimp races, the science of ice cream, a flying car and more.
Flying like the birds
Multidisciplinary university research initiative, led by a CSAIL researcher, is developing a bird-sized UAV.