Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.
A human-aware motion planning algorithm addresses the safety gap in collaboration between robots and humans.
Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.
“This is a really exciting time to be a roboticist who also cares about the environment,” says PhD student Victoria Preston.
MIT alumnus-founded RightHand Robotics has developed picking robots that are more reliable and adaptable in warehouse environments.
MIT offers first courses on the platform, which aims to serve cutting-edge manufacturing education to more Americans.
Alumni of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation Program (NEET) worked together remotely from across the globe to design thinking machines.
After meeting in an Advanced Study Program at MIT, three Norwegian students began working together to transport biological samples using autonomous vehicles.
Nearly 300 government and military members participated in a new course designed to explore the next generation of artificial intelligence and related technologies.
Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration.
Model could help predictive virtual models become standard practice in engineering.
Professor Tim Jamison’s company Snapdragon Chemistry helps turn the latest innovations in chemistry into impactful drugs.
A virtual environment embedded with knowledge of the physical world speeds up problem-solving.
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground, and might one day help disarm land mines or inspect cables.