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EECS September kickoff reception features guest speakers Susan Hockfield and Ray Stata
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Mission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
The quest to build fast, cooperating robots that can explore the ocean's dynamic features is happening on the Charles River.
Better robot vision
A neglected statistical tool could help robots better understand the objects in the world around them.
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Under the sea
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
Achieving an innovation nation
MIT report emphasizes need to turn U.S. innovation strengths into growth.
Accelerating startups, the MIT way
MIT’s Global Founders Skills Accelerator — which focuses on ‘disciplined entrepreneurship’ — helps student teams build innovation-based startups.
Two from MIT named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list
Pedro Reis and Feng Zhang recognized as young stars in science and technology.
Artificial-intelligence research revives its old ambitions
A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims at nothing less than unraveling the mystery of intelligence.
Terramechanics research aims to keep Mars rovers rolling
Simulations predict safest path for rovers to travel.
A look at the Class of 2017
From a bedroom chemist to a high-flying roboticist, talents abound among MIT’s incoming freshmen.