Seeking rare cells
Christopher Love uses microscale technology to isolate rare cells, yielding insight into human disease.
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Education is focus of Lemann gift to MIT
New partnership will support high-impact initiatives aimed at improving public education in Brazil.
Centimeter-long origami robot
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.
Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research
MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.
MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
MIT Corporation elects new members
Eight term members will each serve five years on MIT’s board of trustees.
Vanishing friction
In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.
Robotic challenger
MIT team prepares to meet 24 others in $2 million DARPA competition to develop disaster-assistance robots.
Helping robots handle uncertainty
Algorithm for planning multirobot collaborations makes complex models practical.
Using soccer to teach robotics
In this year's MechE World Cup, undergraduates joined forces to build soccer-playing robots that emulate human movement.
Tough biogel structures produced by 3-D printing
Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering.
Forbes Café in Stata Center to undergo renovations
New England diner, salad bar highlight updates to debut this fall.
Helping robots put it all together
New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.
SuperUROP class of 2015 graduates with high accomplishment and promise
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart thanks SuperUROP students for their research and innovation contributions; praises program's quintessential "MIT-ness."