Artificial intelligence

MIT associate professor Josh Tenenbaum and his former student, Charles Kemp, have developed a computer algorithm that can select the best type of structure to fit a set of data. Such structures, shown here, include linear order, rings and clusters.

MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans

August 25, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Students robots in this year's 2.007 contest held at MIT competed in performing beaver-like tasks, including knocking down pool noodle 'trees' and dumping them in a ping-pong ball 'river,' to score points.

Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest

May 9, 2008

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

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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

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