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MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.
The underbelly of MIT’s 3D-printed, hyrdaulic robot MIT “Building robots inevitably involves the time-consuming and labor-intensive step of assembling a large number of discrete pieces,” MIT ...
The MIT engineers are at it again — and this time, they’ve created a robotic cheetah that knows how to leap. "In those settings, you need to use vision in order to avoid failure," Gabriel ...
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope. The hulky human form sways as the Cambridge breeze ...
This week, roboticists at MIT have demonstrated a new robot with an extending limb that grows a bit like a plant. The appendage can weave its way through confined spaces before lifting a heavy load.
MIT engineers have built a fast, lightweight robotic arm that can play table tennis like a pro. Designed for high-speed accuracy, the robot sits at one end of a ping pong table and uses a standard ...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaching robots to “see” what an object looks like just by touching it and predict what something will feel like by looking at it.
MIT’s long-jumping, back-flipping mini cheetah is at it again — and this time, it’s taught itself how to run. The engineers behind the robot released a video showcasing its new skills on ...
MIT's big-cat-inspired robot has gotten some serious upgrades as researchers continue to improve its skills. It's come a long way since its first treadmill test, during which it was tethered up.
(CNN) -- MIT has designed a robot that is capable of disinfecting the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in only half an hour, and it could one day be used to clean your local grocery store or ...
MIT has designed a robot that is capable of disinfecting the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in only half an hour, and it could one day be used to clean your local grocery store or school.
How MIT's robot Cheetah got its speed Why an ultrafast robot heralds a day when robots will walk (and run) among us. Written by Greg Nichols, Contributing Writer March 17, 2022, 6:00 a.m. PT MIT ...