Flying high to enable sustainable delivery, remote care
Drone company founders with MIT Advanced Study Program roots seek to bring aerial delivery to the mainstream.
Drone company founders with MIT Advanced Study Program roots seek to bring aerial delivery to the mainstream.
Neural network controllers provide complex robots with stability guarantees, paving the way for the safer deployment of autonomous vehicles and industrial machines.
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
The method uses language-based inputs instead of costly visual data to direct a robot through a multistep navigation task.
MIT CSAIL’s frugal deep-learning model infers the hidden physical properties of objects, then adapts to find the most stable grasps for robots in unstructured environments like homes and fulfillment centers.
With generative AI models, researchers combined robotics data from different sources to help robots learn better.
Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.
A new study suggests optogenetics can drive muscle contraction with greater control and less fatigue than electrical stimulation.
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
Audrey Chen ’24 landed an internship at NASA before she was old enough to drive. Here’s her secret to success.
MIT CSAIL researchers enhance robotic precision with sophisticated tactile sensors in the palm and agile fingers, setting the stage for improvements in human-robot interaction and prosthetic technology.
A new MIT system could help astronauts conserve energy and extend missions on the lunar surface.
A new “consensus game,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, elevates AI’s text comprehension and generation skills.
A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot’s entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items.
Undergraduates Ben Lou, Srinath Mahankali, and Kenta Suzuki, whose research explores math and physics, are honored for their academic excellence.