Artificial intelligence

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

April 9, 2008

MIT students design graduate student development program

February 16, 2008

Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa

February 16, 2008

MIT's self-driving Land Rover takes to the road. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('urban-truck-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles

November 5, 2007

MIT's 'robocar' negotiated a course without a driver to advance to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge.

MIT's 'robocar' named a finalist in DARPA Urban Challenge

November 1, 2007

Broken amphoras amid debris on the Aegean seafloor.

Cask from the past

Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA

October 29, 2007

A good luck send-off for 'Robocar'

October 17, 2007

Graduate student Conor Walsh demonstrates a prototype of the 'exoskeleton' he and other MIT researchers have devised. The invention can successfully take on 80 percent of an 80-pound load carried on a person's back.

21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load

September 19, 2007

Professor Hugh Herr of the Media Lab is shown here addressing h2.0, a one-day symposium in May 2007 that focused on ushering in a new era in human adaptability.

Herr wins $250,000 Heinz Award

September 12, 2007

MIT's entry for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge competition is a self-piloted Land Rover LR3.

DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist

August 9, 2007

Professor Ian Hunter (standing), post-doc James Tangorra and colleagues in MIT's Bioinstrumentation Lab are working to create a robotic version of the bluegill sunfish's fin. Such a robotic fin, like the one Tangorra is holding, could improve the maneuverability of autonomous underwater vehicles.

MIT team building robotic fin for submarines

July 30, 2007

The powered ankle-foot prosthesis developed at the MIT Media Lab by Professor Hugh Herr and researchers in the lab's biomechatronics research group.

Joint effort: Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot

Army vet demos MIT prosthesis; device is first of its kind

July 23, 2007

Drivers Unwanted: MIT 'Robocar' takes a spin

June 28, 2007

David Sanchez, left, keeps his eyes on the road as Mario Bollini points to dangers ahead on the 2.007 contest table. Sanchez came in second. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('2007_1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Sophomore's elegant, relentless machine a grand slam in 37th robo-fest

May 22, 2007

Drawing of the contest table on which contestants' robots will compete during the 2.007 Robotic Competition to be held May 15-16.

Mechanical engineering robo-fest starts May 15

May 14, 2007

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