Robotics

CSAIL robots take center stage

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Principal Investigator Daniela Rus collaborated with modern dance company Pilobolus this past year to bring flying robots to the stage.

November 14, 2011

Based on simulations, the researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can combine multiple modules as shown above. Here, three modules are mounted on a base of silicon rubber. The overall unit bends freely, so it can conform and adhere tightly to a curved surface such as the outside of a pipe. Despite their proximity, the three modules operate independently with no interference.

Helping robots hold on

MIT researchers design a ‘controllable adhesion system’ for underwater robots.

November 10, 2011

People on a boat lowering a submersible vehicle

Navigating blindfolded

Advanced mathematical techniques enable AUVs to survey large, complex and cluttered seascapes.

November 8, 2011

Using a phone to fly a drone

Pilotless planes at MIT controlled via iPhones in Seattle.

November 8, 2011

In these time-lapse photos, a robot is guided by two different algorithms as it attempts to grasp a coffee cup on a desk. In the first (top), the robot flails about randomly before reaching toward the cup. But when it runs a new algorithm designed by MIT researchers (bottom), its movements are much more efficient and predictable.

Smarter robot arms

A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

September 21, 2011

MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface

New multi-institution center will work on robotic interaction with nervous system

July 14, 2011

The researchers test their program on a real-life robot, which is able to decide that a can needs to be picked up, then plan and execute the actual motions necessary to lift it from a table.

Honing household helpers

MIT computer scientists work toward improving robots’ ability to plan and perform complex actions, domestically and elsewhere.

May 26, 2011

Junior Kelsey Brigance takes a look at one of the two robots she utilized in the competition.

A competition full of hacks

Annual 2.007 finale pits robots against MIT history.

May 9, 2011

One of two Slocum gliders owned and operated by the USC Center for Integrated Networked Aquatic PlatformS (CINAPS).

Speeding swarms of sensor robots

A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.

May 3, 2011

iRobot's Warrior machine, one of two types of robots sent to Japan, in action.

iRobot to the rescue

CSAIL spinoff sends robotic aid to Japan

March 28, 2011

circles with a person inside each one, connected by networking lines

Explained: Ad hoc networks

Decentralized wireless networks could have applications in distributed sensing and robotics and maybe even personal communications.

March 10, 2011

In 2.70, the precursor to 2.007, the competition was to build a mechanical device, out of a set of relatively simple wooden and metal parts, that would roll down a ramp at a precisely controlled rate.

Going head to head

Mechanical-engineering competition set the stage for a variety of competitive classes and events at MIT and elsewhere.

February 9, 2011

The Alphabot, a prototype robot that appears to move seamlessly between the real world and an on-screen virtual world, is designed to resemble a child's alphabet block.

When the playroom is the computer

A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.

November 22, 2010

Studded with magnets and electronic muscles known as actuators, a prototype robot developed at MIT can automatically fold itself into an airplane or an origami boat.

Shape-shifting robots

Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.

August 5, 2010

MIT Sea Grant’s Sea Perch being tested at French university

Undergraduate course, created in collaboration with Total Corporation, will hold presentations on May 28.

May 18, 2010

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