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Stickybot has specially designed footpads, inspired by the surface of a gecko’s foot, that allow it to climb smooth surfaces. MIT Assistant Professor Sangbae Kim worked on the robot as a graduate student at Stanford.

From nature, robots

Mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim looks to animals to inspire his robot designs

September 25, 2009

Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi holds two robotic fishes he designed with recent PhD student Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado. The sleek robots can more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go.

Fish and chips

New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.

August 24, 2009

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Director Victor Zue, left, Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam and MIT President Susan Hockfield sign a five-year, $25 million agreement that extends Quanta's research collaboration with CSAIL on developing new information technologies.

Quanta Computer extends collaboration with CSAIL

$25 million agreement to fund research on cloud computing, mobile technologies

July 17, 2009

A young stroke patient tests out an MIT-developed robotic therapy device at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Westchester County, N.Y.

Robotic therapy holds promise for cerebral palsy

Devices can help children with brain injuries learn to grasp and manipulate objects

May 19, 2009

'Bother bots' win the day

Annual 2.007 robot competition features good defense

May 8, 2009

Robots on a recycling rampage

Student projects compete in annual event

May 1, 2009

Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

ACM cites 'foundational innovations' in programming language design

March 10, 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

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

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

Schematic shows Odyssey IV, a small, inexpensive, MIT-designed robotic submarine that can hover in place like a helicopter.

MIT's new underwater robot can hover in place

Odyssey IV could be a boon for oil explorers, archaeologists and more

September 25, 2008

Nicholas Roy, left, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Seth Teller, professor of computer science and engineering, stand next to the robotic wheelchair they co-designed, which can be navigated by vocal command.

Robot wheelchair finds its own way

MIT invention responds to user's spoken commands

September 19, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

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