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A patient uses a robotic therapy device invented at MIT. The robotic joystick guides the patient’s arm as he tries to move the robot handle toward a moving or stationary target shown on the computer monitor. If the person starts moving in the wrong direction or does not move, the robotic arm gently nudges his arm in the right direction.

Robotic therapy helps stroke patients regain function

MIT robots can deliver high-intensity interactive physical therapy.

April 19, 2010

Mary (Missy) Cummings, professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Engineering Systems Division, holds a quad-rotor.

In Profile: Missy Cummings

Former U.S. Naval fighter pilot aims to improve how humans and computers interact.

April 5, 2010

Pablo Parrilo, the Finmeccanica Career Development Professor of Engineering MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems

Much scientific research across a range of disciplines tries to find linear approximations of nonlinear behaviors. But what does that mean?

February 26, 2010

A small, autonomous helicopter, programmed by MIT students under the direction of Professor Nick Roy, passes through a simulated window as part of a competition held over the summer.

Flight of fancy

Using an autonomous mini-helicopter, an MIT team stunned the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International by solving one of its notoriously tough challenges on the first try.

December 3, 2009

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

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