Making life friendlier with personal robots
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
Researchers develop a machine-learning technique that can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data.
A new technique helps a nontechnical user understand why a robot failed, and then fine-tune it with minimal effort to perform a task effectively.
A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.
Students learn about the complexity behind simple, everyday movement before experimenting with mechanical models.
Researchers develop an algorithm that decides when a “student” machine should follow its teacher, and when it should learn on its own.
With winches, spinners, and telescoping contraptions, bots go head to head in student robot competition inspired by “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
The MIT Sailing Pavilion, the oldest collegiate organization of its kind, offers community members a chance to sail for free — or just enjoy the good vibes.
SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.
Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold.
The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips.
“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.
New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.