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CSAIL robots take center stage

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Principal Investigator Daniela Rus collaborated with modern dance company Pilobolus this past year to bring flying robots to the stage.

November 14, 2011

Based on simulations, the researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can combine multiple modules as shown above. Here, three modules are mounted on a base of silicon rubber. The overall unit bends freely, so it can conform and adhere tightly to a curved surface such as the outside of a pipe. Despite their proximity, the three modules operate independently with no interference.

Helping robots hold on

MIT researchers design a ‘controllable adhesion system’ for underwater robots.

November 10, 2011

'Lateral lines' in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines.

Going with the flow

Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels.

November 9, 2011

People on a boat lowering a submersible vehicle

Navigating blindfolded

Advanced mathematical techniques enable AUVs to survey large, complex and cluttered seascapes.

November 8, 2011

Using a phone to fly a drone

Pilotless planes at MIT controlled via iPhones in Seattle.

November 8, 2011

AUVs: From idea to implementation

One day, researchers predict, these robots will be able to do tasks without a human in the loop.

November 7, 2011

Game puts artificial intelligence in the mind of the beholder

What if developing certain kinds of AI didn’t have to be so laborious?

October 31, 2011

Researchers find bees get the sweetest nectar by dipping their tongues into the viscous syrup. Pictured is a bumblebee drinking from a sucrose-soaked surface.

Sugar high for bees

Bees, and similar nectar feeders, get sweeter juice with dipping tongues.

October 12, 2011

MERS tackles the human-robot divide

October 11, 2011

Just some of the companies that have spun out from MIT's work and its people.

Classes and academic research help launch companies

A variety of course offerings are devoted to spurring new ventures.

October 3, 2011

Mitchel Resnick, the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab

Resnick awarded McGraw Prize in Education

Media Lab professor is one of three honored for work in digital education.

September 30, 2011

In these time-lapse photos, a robot is guided by two different algorithms as it attempts to grasp a coffee cup on a desk. In the first (top), the robot flails about randomly before reaching toward the cup. But when it runs a new algorithm designed by MIT researchers (bottom), its movements are much more efficient and predictable.

Smarter robot arms

A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

September 21, 2011

Putting the 'science' in political science

Meet new Assistant Professor Teppei Yamamoto

September 12, 2011

Andrew Lo, the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Andrew Lo joins CSAIL

Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk.

August 30, 2011

$MIT researchers found a near-perfect match between their pipeline fracture simulation (bottom) and an image of the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured pipeline taken by an underwater robot.$

Forecasting pipe fractures

MIT simulation accurately reconstructs pipe fractures formed in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident.

August 15, 2011

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