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The Force was strong in this robot competition

MIT News 18 May 2017

Thursday night, dozens of robots designed and built by undergraduates in a mechanical engineering class endured hours of intense, boisterous, and often jubilant competition as they scrambled to rack u...

Teaching robots to teach other robots

CSAIL MIT 10 May 2017

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...

CSAIL launches artificial intelligence initiative with industry

CSAIL MIT 12 Apr 2017

From self-driving cars to the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI) has reached new levels of sophistication in recent years. With that in mind, this week MIT’s Computer Science and Artif...

Toward printable, sensor-laden “skin” for robots

MIT News 27 Mar 2017

In this age of smartphones and tablet computers, touch-sensitive surfaces are everywhere. They’re also brittle, as people with cracked phone screens everywhere can attest. Covering a robot — or...

Engineers design “tree-on-a-chip”

MIT News 22 Mar 2017

Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature’s hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars pr...

Security for multirobot systems

MIT News 17 Mar 2017

Distributed planning, communication, and control algorithms for autonomous robots make up a major area of research in computer science. But in the literature on multirobot systems, security has gotten...

Mind control: Correcting robot mistakes using EEG brain signals

CSAIL MIT 06 Mar 2017

For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit comm...

Data Civilizer system links data scattered across files for easy querying

MIT News 24 Jan 2017

The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be applied, the target data has to be aggregated, organized, and cleaned up....

Combining automation and mobility to create a smarter world

MIT News 20 Jan 2017

By: Catherine Marguerite | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachus...

Design, simulate and build a custom drone

CSAIL MIT 05 Dec 2016

This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want? A new system fro...

How the brain recognizes faces

MIT News 01 Dec 2016

MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...

Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84

CSAIL MIT 18 Oct 2016

Whitman Richards '53, PhD '65, professor emeritus of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, died o...

Designing and deploying a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam

MIT News 20 Sep 2016

MIT has signed an agreement to engage in research collaborations with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands. The collaboration’s flagship project, led ...

MIT, Lockheed Martin launch long-term research collaboration

MIT News 17 May 2016

In a new collaborative initiative in autonomy and robotics, MIT and Lockheed Martin scientists will focus on innovations needed to enable generation-after-next autonomous systems. Improvements in huma...

MIT CSAIL’s 6-foot-tall NASA humanoid robot has landed

CSAIL MIT 28 Apr 2016

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL This week MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) received an unusual package: a six-foot-tall, 300-pound humanoid robot that NASA h...

Wireless localizer could mean safer drones and password-free WiFi

CSAIL MIT 01 Apr 2016

By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddling our thumbs while trying to locate a WiFi signal. But what if, instead, the WiFi could locate us?...

Enabling human-robot rescue teams

MIT News 18 Feb 2016

By Larry Hardesty, MIT CSAIL Autonomous robots performing a joint task send each other continual updates: “I’ve passed through a door and am turning 90 degrees right.” “After advancing 2 fe...

Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to make hairpin turns in a simulated “forest”

CSAIL MIT 19 Jan 2016

Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL Getting drones to fly around without hitting things is no small task. Obstacle-detection and motion-planning are two of computer science’s trickiest challenges, because...

From pencil and paper to hands-on making, a brief history of MIT’s legendary MechE 2.007

MIT News 16 Dec 2015

Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering It's hard to ignore the fact that a worldwide maker movement is well underway. Over the past 10 or so years, community Maker Faires have beco...

CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”

MIT News 15 Dec 2015

By Adam Conner-Simmons | CSAIL Last Friday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hosted 150 local high school students for its second annual “Hour of Code” ev...

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

MIT News 18 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL NASA announced yesterday that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will...

“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours

MIT News 17 Nov 2015

[clear] Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from Earth’s changing climate ...

Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

MIT News 22 Oct 2015

by Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to ch...

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell

MIT News 15 Oct 2015

by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...

Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread

Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich 07 Oct 2015

Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...

Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects

CSAIL MIT 02 Oct 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL Robots have many strong suits, but delicacy traditionally hasn’t been one of them. Rigid limbs and digits make it difficult for them to grasp, hold, and manipulat...

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Sep 2015

In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...

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