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One project that received MITEI seed funds involves developing remote-controlled robots that can walk along deep-sea oil pipes and drilling facilities, performing critical inspection and maintenance tasks. Key to the design is a foot inspired by that of the gecko, which can stick to and traverse all kinds of surfaces. The project builds on previous work in which the researchers developed "Stickybo...

MITEI awards third round of seed grants

May 5, 2009

Robots on a recycling rampage

Student projects compete in annual event

May 1, 2009

Music at MIT hitting all the right notes

April 15, 2009

MISTI selects first winners of Global Seed Funds

February 24, 2009

Choose the artifacts that tell the MIT story

February 12, 2009

Raquel Velez mentors a student during ROLL's Weekend Robotics Workshop.

Lincoln Laboratory is on a 'ROLL'

Scientists mentor students in the basics of robotics

January 22, 2009

Researchers at CSAIL are developing a remotely commandable, semi-autonomous robotic forklift designed to move cargo in dangerous places.

Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm's way

Could allow military to handle supplies without risk to people

January 21, 2009

Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery

Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

January 15, 2009

MIT scientists to be key Lunar Institute members

January 12, 2009

Developing a better flight plan for weather forecasting

Flying robots could give people more time to prepare for the worst

December 11, 2008

Four MIT students win Marshall Scholarships

December 1, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Professor Anette Hosoi and graduate student Amos Winter developed a robo-clam that could lead to "smart" anchoring technologies. Outside the testing device they hold clamshells of some of the clams they tested.

Dig this: RoboClam

Device could lead to 'smart' anchors, more

November 25, 2008

From left to right: Richard Maulsby (United States Patent and Trademark Office), Timothy Lu (grand winner, MIT), Greg Schroll (undergraduate winner, MIT), Paul Podsiadlo (graduate winner, University of Michigan), Neil Conan (NPR host) and Jeff Pan (Abbott representative who was also a judge).

MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest

Lu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors

November 21, 2008

David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group.

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the movies

November 18, 2008

Senior Paul Blascovich watches surgical robot operating from left, while teaching assistant Lael Odhner plays with arm. Junior Tony McDonald watches from back, Junior Ian Rust and instructor Harrison Chin watch from center and right of "patient."

Going under the (robotic) knife

Engineering students design robots to remove tumors

November 17, 2008

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