3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Annual business-plan contest awards $257,000 in total.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron visits MIT
Personable robots, advanced prosthetics and entrepreneurship figure prominently in campus visit.
MIT conference showcases undergraduate research
EECScon 2013 marks MIT’s first research conference geared toward engineering undergraduates
In 2.007, slow and steady wins the race
Final tournament of robots in mechanical engineering class features wide variety of designs and strategies.
New research could let vehicles, robots collaborate with humans
Researchers are developing systems that can analyze people’s needs to determine the best way to achieve their goals.
3Q: Robert Desimone on the federal BRAIN Initiative
Director of McGovern Institute discusses how new initiative to understand the human brain will affect neuroscience at MIT and beyond.
Students have engineering on the brain
MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.
Robot meets world
A new way of reasoning about what happens when a robot’s limb strikes an object could lead to more efficient and reliable robotic-control systems.
Can control theory make software better?
Techniques used to ensure that airplanes won’t stall out in flight could be adapted to prove that computer programs won’t divide by zero.
MIT ‘cheetah’ robot rivals running animals in efficiency
Robot’s custom-designed electric motors are powerful and efficient.
MIT student inventor Nikolai Begg receives Lemelson-MIT student prize
$30,000 Lemelson-MIT collegiate student prizes awarded to inventive students at three leading universities
Teaching robots lateral thinking
New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
AAAS annual meeting puts MIT science and technology on display
The 2013 conference, held last week in Boston, featured research presentations, hands-on demonstrations.