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The Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab have developed an interactive robot called Dragonbot to teach young children how to program. Dragonbot has audio and video sensors, a speech synthesizer, a range of expressive gestures, and a video screen for a face that assumes various expressions. Children created programs that dictated how Dragonbot would react to stimuli.

Teaching programming to preschoolers

System that lets children program a robot using stickers embodies new theories about programming languages.

March 11, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a finger-worn device with a built-in camera that can convert text to speech for the visually impaired.

Finger-mounted reading device for the blind

Audio feedback helps user scan finger along a line of text, which software converts to speech.

March 10, 2015

Domitilla Del Vecchio bridges math, engineering, and biology

Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological circuits.

March 9, 2015

Nickerson named vice president for communications

Head of MIT News Office to assume larger role in coordinating Institute-wide communications.

February 24, 2015

Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?

CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.

February 18, 2015

Among the games designed for the Sifteo Cubes were adventure games, like the one shown here, where users uncover sections of a maze for characters by moving cubes up and down, and putting them adjacent to each other.

Consumer-friendly makers

Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.

February 17, 2015

MIT's newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering are Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Emery N. Brown, and Anantha Chandrakasan (in upper row), and Eric D. Evans, Karen K. Gleason, L. Rafael Reif, and Daniela Rus (in lower row).

Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering

New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.

February 5, 2015

Lincoln Laboratory STEM workshop for girls

Lincoln Laboratory hosts first "Make Your Own Wearables" workshop for high-school girls

Hands-on projects in wearable technology introduce girls to mechanical design and electrical engineering.

January 14, 2015

Andrew Viterbi receiving the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush

Inspiring a new generation of innovators

Andrew Viterbi ’56, SM ’57 has been a pioneer in wireless communications for more than half a century.

January 13, 2015

Vision system for household robots

New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.

January 12, 2015

Five CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows

The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.

January 8, 2015

Top tweets of 2014

Best of the year on @MIT include a robot cheetah, next-generation spacesuits, and Tetris tater tots.

December 30, 2014

Geometric cutout shows MIT's Stata Center

Drones, Bitcoin, and robotic fish

Here are eight of the coolest things that happened at CSAIL in 2014.

December 29, 2014

Students get hands-on with one of CSAIL's Baxter robots.

CSAIL opens lab to 150 local students for Hour of Code

Robots, virtual visit from will.i.am aim to get kids excited about programming.

December 12, 2014

MIT launches “Solve” to galvanize action on solving the world’s great challenges

Leaders to gather for keystone event at MIT next October.