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.
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.
Neil Gershenfeld is director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.
Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.
Jacqueline Durazo, a mechanical engineering major, discusses her work building robots and participating in pageants.
A recording of the webcast of the competition, which took place on Jan. 30, 2013.
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 ...
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
This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.
Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/