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Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Mar 2014
What looks like a fish, swims like a fish but isn’t a fish? The latest in soft-bodied robots created by team of engineers of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at th...
Robotic bartender assembles personalized drinks, monitors alcohol consumption, and takes social mixing to a whole new level
Hallie Siegel
16 May 2013
You're at a busy bar. You order your personalized cocktail through a smart phone app; a drink dispenser measures out the beverage according to your instructions and a Kuka robotic arm give it a shake ...
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Robert Morris
26 Mar 2013
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
Joichi Ito interviewed at World Economic Forum
John Payne
27 Jan 2013
Rana Foroohar, of Time Magazine, in the context of the World Economic Forum, interviewing Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab.
View on the WEF website...
Milli-moteins and wobble motors | Robots.net
John Payne
05 Dec 2012
Steve Rainwater of Robots.net has provided a more accessible, but still detailed account of the DARPA-sponsored work on programmable matter at MIT, with particular focus on the electropermanent wobble...
MIT spin-off Robot Rebuilt working on sensitive robotic hands | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Dec 2012
An MIT spin-off called Robot Rebuilt wants to build robot hands with human-like sensitivity.See on www.gizmag.com...
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife | MIT News Office
John Payne
03 Dec 2012
“The little device is called a milli-motein — a name melding its millimeter-sized components and a motorized design inspired by proteins, which naturally fold themselves into incredibly co...
Nanoparticle transport in tumors
Sabine Hauert
28 Nov 2012
The idea of nanorobots capable of navigating the body was popularized by the 1966 science fiction flick Fantastic Voyage. Since then, bio-engineers have imagined a variety of nanoparticles that can po...
Tovbot’s Shimi at Google I/O
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/s6bs1rrOwxo
Tovbot's Shimi made its first public appearance two days ago at Google I/O, where not just one but three Shimis performed in perfect coordination. Tovbot was formed earlie...
MIT’s Cheetah acquires new gates
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/U5_OUfCPZd0
In early March, Boston Dynamics posted a video (shown below) showing the Cheetah robot they are developing for DARPA running at 18 miles per hour (a new record for a robot...
Aggressive flight using laser scanner, IMU, & 3D map
John Payne
30 May 2012
http://youtu.be/VUeKKvKEvYI
Evan Ackerman, writing for IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog, saysResearchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring, so they’ve come up wit...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
28 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...
MIT Mediated Matter Group: CNSILK
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/JgeFLGfvrEM
The Mediated Matter Group within the MIT Media Lab, is dedicated to the development and application of novel processes that enable and support the design of physical matte...
