Delivery by drone
New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions.
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CSAIL researchers among Tech Review’s annual list of top young innovators
Adib and Shah to be honored at EmTech@MIT conference next month
Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration between MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes.
CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away
Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
Getting a grip on robotic grasp
New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers.
Squishy robots
Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states.
Drone lighting
Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.
Bacteria: A day in the life
MIT study finds ocean bacteria follow predictable patterns of daily activity.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Rethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe teaches and practices new design and construction logics for the next generation of high-performance buildings.
Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50
Expert on computer vision, robotics, and human-robot interaction had been on the faculty since 1994.
