Shopping Online? These Robots Will Fill Your Order
A look inside the new warehouse automation system owned by Amazon.
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Videographer: Verne Kopytoff | Narrator: Antonio Regalado | Editor: Kyanna Sutton
A look inside the new warehouse automation system owned by Amazon.
Videographer: Verne Kopytoff | Narrator: Antonio Regalado | Editor: Kyanna Sutton
Beyond simple walking, bipedalism implies more generally a capability of manipulation with the feet (pedipulation), through discontinuous deformation of the standing region and continuous manipulation of the reaction forces within the standing ...
In this talk a framework based on energetical reasoning for modeling and control purposes based on port-Hamiltonian theory will be briefly presented. Then this methodology will be used to analyse novel concepts of actuations called Variable ...
We present a method for controlling humanoid robots to recover from disturbances when available footholds are limited. This method involves determining the robot's Capture Region taking into consideration the available footholds, deciding where in ...
Mobile robot designers are increasingly searching for inspirations and design cues from biological models. Biomechanics research of animals provides an invaluable source of ideas for legged robot design but the process of implementation involves ...
Cybernetic human HRP-4C is a humanoid robot whose body dimensions were designed to match the average Japanese young female. I will explain the current status of HRP-4C and lessons we learned from the project.
Humans are mediocre sprinters at best. The top speed of Usain Bolt can be matched by a domestic cat. But when it comes to endurance running over many kilometers and long durations of time, very few animals measure up to humans. We present here ...
Leg function can be adapted to different gaits and environmental conditions. Here we investigate, to what extent the structure of the segmented leg and the upright posture of the trunk affects the dynamics and stability of legged locomotion. With ...
The extreme variation in hindlimb morphology that has occurred in the evolution of birds adapted to varying types of locomotion provides the opportunity to examine those features of muscle and limb architecture that appear to be associated with a ...
Our research aims at the creation of fast and efficient running motions of four legged robotic systems. We design our robots to explicitly enable and exploit natural dynamic effects (such as the oscillation on springy legs) in their mechanical ...
It is thought that many aspects of steady human locomotion under normal conditions can be predicted by appealing to the hypothesis that healthy humans roughly move in a manner that minimizes the metabolic cost of locomotion. While energy ...
Floquet theory describes the linearization of an oscillator around its orbit. We convert this familiar classical result to an empirical form, allowing Floquet models to be constructed directly from experimentally obtained trajectories of periodic ...
This talk will present a method for computing estimates of regions of attraction to limit cycles of quite a general class of nonlinear hybrid systems. Such limit cycles typically represent the "nominal" motion of a walking robot, with alternating ...
This talk discusses the first steps toward closing the loop on walking: generating mathematical models for human walking, developing control laws that yield walking for 3D bipeds using these formal models, and comparing the resulting robotic ...
Integrative approaches to studying the coupled dynamics of skeletal muscles with their loads while under neural control have focused largely on questions pertaining to the postural and dynamical stability of animals and humans. Prior studies have ...
Birds are a diverse group of bipedal animals that span a range of body size, morphology and habitat use. This diversity can be exploited to reveal relationships between morphology, economy and stability of locomotion, providing a complementary ...
It is now well established that the elastic function of tendons has a profound influence on the mechanics, energetics, and control of locomotion. A model of a simple Hookean spring in series with a muscle actuator reveals mechanisms that reduce the ...
Compliant mechanical behavior of the lower-limb can capture the basic dynamics of stable walking and running across a range of speeds, but the neuromechanical mechanisms responsible for robust, spring-like limb dynamics are not entirely clear. In ...
Optimal control has a lot of potential, however its applications to robotics have been limited, partly because the problem is very hard to solve even numerically. In this talk I will summarize a recently-developed formulation of stochastic optimal ...
Designing controllers for legged locomotion requires dealing with complex nonlinear dynamics and non-trivial notions of stability including limit cycles and dynamically stable maneuvers. In this talk I will describe the LQR-Trees algorithm for ...
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
On April 24, 2013 in Briggs Field, thousands of law enforcement officials joined the MIT community in honoring fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Natural selection at work.
An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
An undergraduate helps MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Department find a cure for Huntington's disease.
An MIT undergraduate models a new class of material: the photonic crystal.
Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
What makes a glow stick glow?
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
Now in its 75th year, we take a look back how the Hobby Shop began, and how it evolved to what it is today.
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