Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
New design could provide communication support in disaster zones.
From fieldwork to the big screen
Fourth annual CEE Video Competition highlights global research and opportunities.
Getting their hands dirty: Students experience fieldwork in Hawaii
TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers undergraduates the opportunity to get out in the field.
Drones dodge obstacles
Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to do donuts, figure-eights in object-filled environments.
Technology confronts disasters
Research and development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory will help agencies better respond to disasters and humanitarian crises.
UAVs learn to fly solo
Nick Roy develops unmanned aerial vehicles that can operate autonomously in constrained spaces and unmapped environments.
Consumer-friendly makers
Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.
CSAIL’s Nick Roy helms Google’s delivery-drone project
Autonomy expert led MIT-heavy team in developing “self-flying planes”
Making drones more customizable
Airware’s operating system makes drones simple to build and modify for multiple applications.
Drone lighting
Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.
A charging solution for delivery drones: Take after our feathered friends?
New CSAIL research suggests a future where UAVs can recharge their batteries by perching on power lines.
Flight path: Into the volcanic plume
Researchers in EAPS are using small unmanned aircraft systems to better understand environmental phenomena, such as dangerous volcanic plumes.
Cape Cod drone test site will be boon to MIT researchers
Government-sanctioned airspace provides “realistic environment” for testing unmanned aircraft systems.
Building stronger multifunctional composites
Carbon nanotube deicing technologies developed at MIT could be in flight tests as early as next year.
New research could let vehicles, robots collaborate with humans
Researchers are developing systems that can analyze people’s needs to determine the best way to achieve their goals.