Teaching robots lateral thinking
New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
Swapping of roles improves efficiency as well as robots’ confidence and humans’ trust.
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
Siblings Andrew and Jennifer Barry have not only managed to maintain a close friendship into their adult years, but are also both studying robotics at CSAIL
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Flexible design enables body-morphing capability.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
New wireless power and camera setups will expand the mini-satellites’ vision and navigation capabilities.
CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.
Algorithms enable robot to navigate and view propellers and other complex structures.
Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe.
New research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects.
New algorithm allows robots and humans to work side by side.
EECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.
Competition concludes mechanical design class, unleashing a wide variety of spinning, pumping and striking robots.