'Cheetah' robot's first run
'Cheetah' robot's first run
A “cheetah” robot designed at MIT may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency: In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that it wastes very little energy as it trots continuously for up to an hour and a half.
In profile: Nikolai Begg
Nikolai Begg: The 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Profile video of Nikolai Begg, 2013 $30,000 winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his portfolio of novel medical devices that are helping to make surgical procedures less invasive.
Reaching the goal of the Star Trek replicator
Reaching the goal of the Star Trek replicator
Neil Gershenfeld is director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.
Teaching robots to adapt
Teaching robots to adapt
Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.
From Robots to Pageantry
Student profile: Jaqueline Durazo
Jacqueline Durazo, a mechanical engineering major, discusses her work building robots and participating in pageants.
6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition 2013
6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition 2013
A recording of the webcast of the competition, which took place on Jan. 30, 2013.
Object Placement as Inverse Motion Planning, presented by ...
Object Placement as Inverse Motion Planning, presented by SuperUROP ...
MIT EECS - Angle Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Annie Holladay presented her project titled "Object Placement as Inverse Motion Planning" at the Dec. 6, 2012, SuperUROP poster session held in the MIT Grier Room, 34-401. Ms. Holladay's advisors are EECS ...
MIT News at Noon: Reconfigurable robots
MIT News at Noon with Neil Gershenfeld and Ara Knaian
The researchers discussed their robot, the Milli-Motein, which is not only one of the world's smallest robots, but if can also reconfigure itself in a matter of seconds
Real-life Transformers?
Real-life Transformers? MIT researchers unveil (tiny) reconfigurable robots
This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.
Light-activated skeletal muscles
Light-activated skeletal muscles
Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
Robot building and barefoot running
Robot building and barefoot running with Russ Tedrake
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
This video shows a simulation of a vehicle driving on two types of off-road surfaces. One vehicle is on a flat, sloped surface, and the other vehicle is on a rough, sloped surface. It can be seen that the roughness causes one vehicle to rollover. Read more at the ...
Soft Robotic Manipulator Enabled by Jamming of Granular ...
Soft Robotic Manipulator Enabled by Jamming of Granular Media
This video demonstrates a robotic manipulator that is robust, high-force, low-cost, and highly articulated without employing traditional actuators mounted at the manipulator joints. Rather, local tunable stiffness is coupled with off-board spooler motors and ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to Cart-Pole Stabilization
This video contains animations of the two simulation results described in a conference paper presented at ICRA 2010. The results show tip-up of a vehicle on a surface with two different friction coefficients. In the first simulation, the surface friction coefficient is ...
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/