Robotics

More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially…

MIT professors and MacArthur Fellows Regina Barzilay and Dina Katabi recently gathered leaders in technology, biotech, and regulatory agencies for a…

Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design…

If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, there’s a good chance they would name the robotic…

X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT’s…

Daniel Sperling is a distinguished professor of civil engineering and environmental science and policy at the University of California at Davis,…

In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard’s Ambulatory…

Festo, a supplier of automation equipment, has unveiled two new lightweight robotic concepts inspired by nature. The BionicWheelBot and…

MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the…

Ryan Eustice’s interest in self-driving cars began 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole…