Self-taught Sierra Leonean teen visits MIT
Self-taught Sierra Leonean teen visits MIT
Meet Kelvin Doe. A 15-year-old with no formal engineering training, Doe has built batteries and generators using trashed scrap metal and wiring.
Self-oscillating gels
Self-oscillating gels
Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation from external stimuli. These changes are caused by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, which was discovered during the 1950s. Without ...
Seeing through walls
Seeing through walls - MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture ...
Science in the kitchen
Science in the kitchen at MIT
On the sixth-floor of a building at MIT, students are busy measuring flour, melting chocolate and beating eggs. But they're not just trying to satisfy a sweet tooth — they're doing science.
Scanning droplets
Scanning droplets
Animation showing how the base of a water droplet forms small "necks" as it moves across a surface that has pillars etched on it.
Robots swim with the fishes
Robots swim with the fishes
A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go. For more information, read the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html
Robot Forklift demo (June 2010)
Robot Forklift demo (June 2010)
For more info, visit http://agile.mit.edu On June 15 and 16, 2010, the MIT Agile Robotics team demonstrated a robot forklift at a busy SSA (Supply Support Activity, essentially an outdoor warehouse and supply depot) at Fort Lee in Virginia. The demonstration included: understanding and ...
Robot demonstrates task planning and execution skills
Robot demonstrates task planning and execution skills
MIT computer scientists Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez use a Willow Garage PR2 robot to demonstrate their new approach for integrating task and motion planning in robots. The researchers say their algorithm is very much still a work in progress, as can be ...
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.
Robo-fish
Robo-fish
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 ...
River networks on Titan
River networks on Saturn's moon Titan
Researchers at MIT and UT-Knoxville have analyzed images of Titan's river networks and determined that in some regions, rivers have created surprisingly little erosion.
Profile: Richard Braatz
Richard Braatz: Moving past trial-and-error
Richard Braatz believes mathematics can help streamline the road to discovery in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as nanotechnology.
Remembering Ron McNair
Remembering Ron McNair - 25th Anniversary of Challenger disaster
Twenty-five years ago today, on Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing the seven crew members on board — including Ronald McNair PhD ’77. In this video — filmed in the lobby of the Ronald McNair Building — ...
Remembering Neil Armstrong
Remembering Neil Armstrong
Jeff Hoffman and Larry Young, of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, reflect on the life and legacy of Neil Armstrong
Redesigning Solar Power
Redesigning Solar Power
A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable.
Red-necked Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
A video showing the red-necked phalarope's feeding behavior.
Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly
Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly
In this video, each cube is a robotic module that recognizes and connects to its neighbor. Using an computer interface, a user can sculpt the structure into any shape. The structure then disassembles itself into the desired shape by disconnecting and discarding the unneeded cubes. This is ...