Showing robots how to do your chores
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks, such as setting a table.
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks, such as setting a table.
Design combines a common diaper material with RFID technology.
Timothy Loh, a HASTS program doctoral student studying deafness, sign language, and technology, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training.
Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.
Techniques could lead to personalized wearable and implantable devices.
A new tool for predicting a person’s movement trajectory may help humans and robots work together in close proximity.
Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses.
Sophomore Noopur Ranganathan's work empowers those with visual and auditory impairments to take communication into their own hands.
MIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design.
Sixth annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon paired students with client co-designers to create innovative solutions to the everyday problems they face.
MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar Sarah Tress aims to use engineering to reduce hardships in developing countries.
Four seniors in the Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology program designed an audible device to help an MIT employee navigate on the water.
In lab experiments, soldiers wearing exoskeletons designed to improve physical performance reacted more slowly to visual cues.
Visiting students learn what it takes to be an engineer — and a bit more about themselves — at the Edgerton Center’s annual Engineering Design Workshop.
Alumna-founded LiLu promises to make life as a new mom easier by making breast pumping more comfortable and more productive.