Artificial intelligence

Sherry Turkle worries the 'killer app' of sociable robots is that they elicit human care.

Robotic pets may be bad medicine for melancholy

Sherry Turkle finds human-machine love unsettling

November 29, 2006

CSAIL hosts debate on robotic 'nature' and future

Event will celebrate Turing's 'Computable Numbers' paper

November 28, 2006

Robots headed for deepwater oil, gas operations

November 8, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

MIT research engineer Joseph Curcio, left, helps launch a SCOUT for experiments conducted off the island of Pianosa, Italy, in July 2005.

Kayaks adapted to test marine robotics

August 7, 2006

Max Mitchell of Las Vegas holds his team's entry in the underwater robot competition held in the Alumni Pool on July 28, the finale of this year's MITES program. His team, Los Pepos, won the underwater Quidditch match, but not the overall robot competition. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('mites1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MITES makes a splash with robots

August 1, 2006

An artist's rendering shows the baseball-sized probes being designed by MIT researchers for Mars exploration.

Team envisions exploring Mars with mini probes

July 17, 2006

Sophomore Gregory Schroll, winner of this year's 2.007 contest, attributed his victory to driving practice and mastering CAD software.

2.007 robots face off at finals

May 23, 2006

Animatronic monkeys keep graduate student Rachel Kern company in her office at the Media Lab on Friday, May 12. Colleague Matt Adcock, background, has another monkey with him. The monkeys are designed to aid communication between colleagues.

Media Lab researcher gets into Monkey Business

May 17, 2006

2.007 victor shares advice for 2006

May 10, 2006

Nokia Research Center Cambridge opens

April 21, 2006

Show and tell

April 12, 2006

MIT alumna Pia Lindman performs with the robot Domo at the Luxe Gallery in New York City. Her solo show, 'Pia Lindman: Embodiments,' opens at the MIT Museum's Compton Gallery on April 18.

Artist explores human-robot interaction

April 12, 2006

This image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow(...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

February 2, 2006

A poster advertising "Music and the Invasion of Technology" at Boston's Museum of Science. The Jan. 25 show features MIT Professor Evan Ziporyn and alumna Christine Southworth.

Get ready for 'Invasion of Technology'

Museum of Science to showcase MIT music

January 18, 2006

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