Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days

MIT News 09 Jun 2017

In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...

Faster, more nimble drones on the horizon

MIT News 31 May 2017

There’s a limit to how fast autonomous vehicles can fly while safely avoiding obstacles. That’s because the cameras used on today’s drones can only process images so fast, frame by individual fr...

On the future of human-centered robotics

MIT News 16 May 2017

Science and technology are essential tools for innovation, and to reap their full potential, we also need to articulate and solve the many aspects of today’s global issues that are rooted in the pol...

Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms

CSAIL MIT 09 Feb 2017

Every other year, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling hosts a competition in which computer systems designed by conference participants try to find the best solution to a...

MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor

CSAIL MIT 11 Jul 2016

Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....