Custom carpentry with help from robots
CSAIL’s robotic system minimizes dangerous sawing, helps users customize furniture.
CSAIL’s robotic system minimizes dangerous sawing, helps users customize furniture.
New robotic system could lend a hand with warehouse sorting and other picking or clearing tasks.
CSAIL's NanoMap system enables drones to avoid obstacles while flying at 20 miles per hour, by more deeply integrating sensing and control.
Smart furniture transforms spaces in tiny apartments into bedrooms, work spaces, or closets.
Technologies named among the year's most significant innovations address health care, radar performance, aircraft collision avoidance, and 24-hour wide-area surveillance.
A virtual reality system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make it easier for factory workers to telecommute.
Shape-shifting device from CSAIL can walk, roll, sail, and glide using recyclable exoskeletons.
Members of AeroAstro and MechE are returning to a dramatically renovated building, with robots, drones, and even a Corvette in tow.
Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually.
ComText, from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, allows robots to understand contextual commands.
Approach may enable robots to move around hospitals, malls, and other areas with heavy foot traffic.
CSAIL’s “Interactive Robogami” lets you design and 3-D print origami-inspired robots from 2-D designs.
Autonomous wheelchair developed by researchers at MIT and in Singapore promises improved independence for the disabled.
Method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground.
New book by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson surveys tech’s challenges for business.