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MLK Visiting Professors welcomed

December 13, 2000

Here and there

December 6, 2000

James Biggs, postdoctoral associate in the Research Lab of Electronics (left), Professor Mandayam Srinivasan, director of MIT's Touch Lab, and mechanical engineering graduate student Jung Kim observe the movement of a robotic arm driven by signals from a monkey at Duke University.

Monkey controls robotic arm using brain signals sent over Internet

December 6, 2000

Robot reflections

November 8, 2000

When viewing the two gradient-shaded circles in this image on the monitor, most people would see one as concave and the other as convex, since light is assumed to come from "above." Dr. Charles Oman and colleagues wondered whether this illusion would change in orbital flight, where "above" is no longer gravitationally defined. The Center for Space Research will conduct virtual-reality experiments ...

Virtual reality is central to group of MIT space station experiments

November 8, 2000

Stephen Mascaro, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, displays a fingernail sensor designed to replace input from a keyboard or mouse.

Lab showcases health care, robotic projects

November 1, 2000

Directories being distributed

November 1, 2000

Robots and Beyond exhibit explores world of AI

October 25, 2000

Cutting-edge technology focus of d'Arbeloff Laboratory celebration

October 18, 2000

This picture of Cog, a humanoid robot created by a team of researchers at the AI Lab led by Professor Rodney Brooks, was taken in March 1998. Cog is playing with a Slinky toy; the bank of computers to his right is linked to his vision. See related story on Humanoid2000 conference.

Viewpoint: Will man-made robots rise up and demand their rights?

October 18, 2000

Left to right: Eric Wilhelm, Professor Joseph Jacobson and Colin Bulthaup at the Collegiate Inventors award ceremony

Graduate students win inventors competition

October 4, 2000

Professor Edward F. Crawley, head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, spoke to alumni and faculty at a gathering to celebrate the future and past of aerospace.

Future, past of aerospace celebrated by aero/astro department

September 20, 2000

Here & There

September 20, 2000

Rodney A. Brooks, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab), gave the opening talk at the Humanoids 2000 Conference. On the screen is Cog, a humanoid robot developed at the AI Lab.

Experts on humanoid robots discuss their creations' future

September 13, 2000

MIT researchers in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics stand with the instrumented truss that is key to the first hands-on experiment aboard the International Space Station. Left to right: sophomore Cemocan Yesil, Associate Professor David Miller, postdoctoral fellow Gregory Mallory and graduate student Jeremy Yung.

MIT has first experiment aboard space station