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iRobot's Warrior machine, one of two types of robots sent to Japan, in action.

iRobot to the rescue

CSAIL spinoff sends robotic aid to Japan

March 28, 2011

Of Note: U.S. premiere of Death and the Powers

March 18, 2011

Second Fridays at the MIT Museum: Nautical night

March 11, 2011

circles with a person inside each one, connected by networking lines

Explained: Ad hoc networks

Decentralized wireless networks could have applications in distributed sensing and robotics and maybe even personal communications.

March 10, 2011

Front row, left to right: Axel Thibon, Blanche Barco. Back row, left to right: Weizhong Ji, Esra Unluaslan and Manu Sharma.

MIT Sloan students at the wheel

MarketLab 2010 first-place winners discuss their Mercedes-Benz project.

March 7, 2011

U.S. Army Major Joshua A.N Eaton, a fellow of MIT System Design and Management Program.

A systems-based approach to military leadership

March 7, 2011

Save the date

Letter to the community about upcoming MIT150 events: Convocation and the Open House

February 25, 2011

2006 MIT-France Seed Fund awardees Ben Weiss and Jerome Gattacceca received a grant to explore the impact demagnetization of geological materials.

2010-11 MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced

More than $900,000 distributed to 46 international faculty research projects.

February 10, 2011

In 2.70, the precursor to 2.007, the competition was to build a mechanical device, out of a set of relatively simple wooden and metal parts, that would roll down a ramp at a precisely controlled rate.

Going head to head

Mechanical-engineering competition set the stage for a variety of competitive classes and events at MIT and elsewhere.

February 9, 2011

The lonely crowd

In a new book, Sherry Turkle documents the sometimes-detrimental effects of technology on our families and social lives.

January 18, 2011

The 2.009 Product Engineering Processes class culminates in final presentations, where this year eight student teams showed off their food-related business concepts. Here, members of the Orange team make last-minute adjustments to their spice-dispensing machine.

Test kitchen, MIT-style

Students in this year’s product-engineering class serve up food-related innovations.

December 8, 2010

2.009 Product Engineering presentations

December 5, 2010

The Alphabot, a prototype robot that appears to move seamlessly between the real world and an on-screen virtual world, is designed to resemble a child's alphabet block.

When the playroom is the computer

A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.

November 22, 2010

MIT Lincoln Laboratory receives Tech Citizenship Award

Recognized for its strong commitment to community service

November 12, 2010

How do cats lap? Cutta Cutta is about to take a drink.

The surprising physics of cats’ drinking

A new study reveals that even the way cats lap up liquid displays the perfect balance for which they’re known.