Many groups at MIT work on robotics including the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the MIT Media Lab, just to name a few.
Stable gaits of passive walking mechanisms often have narrow and strangely shaped regions of attraction, which are difficult both to estimate analytically and to enlarge using feedback from just a few actuators. For instance, linearization of the first-return ...
We have proposed methods for generating energy-efficient dynamic bipedal gait based on passive dynamics. Parametrically excited dynamic bipedal walking is a novel approach to efficient level dynamic walking. In this method, the robot restores mechanical energy by ...
Robotic technologies have greatly advanced in recent years, making robotic exoskeletons feasible as real devices instead of being limited to science fiction. However, prototype devices do not perform as well as expected, specifically in regard to reducing the ...
MABEL is a bipedal testbed at the University of Michigan that was constructed in collaboration with Jonathan Hurst. The robot is planar, with a torso, two legs with revolute knees, and four actuators. Two of its actuators are in series with large springs for the ...
This talk presents a hierarchical control framework that enables motion planning for fast and efficient 3D dynamic walkers in a similar manner to what is possible for bipeds using Center of Pressure (CoP) equilibrium constraints. Given any low-level controller that ...
LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devices.
This is the complete platform for indoor autonomous flight, developed under Nick Roy in the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL.
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast. Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to ...
This research focuses on the design, analysis, and control of an omnidirectional mobile robot. The robot developed in the research has an Active Split Offset Caster (ASOC) drive mechanisms. ASOC consists of a split wheel pair, a connecting link, and offset link to the ...
This research focuses on the design, analysis, and control of an omnidirectional mobile robot. The robot developed in the research has an Active Split Offset Caster (ASOC) drive mechanisms. ASOC consists of a split wheel pair, a connecting link, and offset link to the ...
The Personal Robots group presents a scenario demonstrating mixed-initiative human-robot teaming for disaster response.
Highlight reel from a unique human-robot stage performance including two human actors and AUR, the robotic desk lamp.
Our indoor quad-rotor, using a laser range finder to control its velocity, position while mapping its environment
Expressive animatronics usually requires a team of puppeteers to jointly move a single character from an off-stage location, making eye-contact with human scene partners virtually impossible. Aiming to solve this problem, a hybrid-control system was developed for Stan Winston Studios for ...
Anticipatory Perceptual Simulation is a cognitive architecture developed at the MIT Media Lab based on current neuro-psychological research in perception and memory. It is designed to allow a robotic teammate to practice a physical task with a human partner. As the ...
AUR, the robotic desk lamp, was used in a unique human-robot stage performance. This video shows clips from the play and describes the hybrid control software used to puppeteer the robot.Music: "The Rain Got Bounced" by TimeVibes
This video shows AUR, a robotic desk lamp, autonomously assisting a user working in a desk environment. This is a follow-up to the previous concept video demonstrating the functional vision for AUR. The robot uses a cognitive architecture capable of anticipatory ...
