MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.

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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 ...

MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various ...

Covariant, a robotics startup that spun off from OpenAI’s now-shuttered robotics research unit, has built a multimodal model called RFM-1. It can accept prompts in the form of text, image, video ...

March 15, 2023 The spider-inspired WORMS-1 robot – other possible WORMS robots were inspired by animals such elephants, oxen and goats George Lordos, et al; edited by MIT News View 1 Images ...

MIT and Amazon team up to study robots in the workplace The goal is ‘learning about how people perceive automation’ By Aaron Pressman Globe Staff, Updated October 18, 2023, 2:30 p.m.

This week, researchers at MIT CSAIL are showcasing PIGINet (Plans, Images, Goal, and Initial facts), which is designed to bring task and motion planning to home robotic systems.

An unlikely pair of robots and opera singers teamed up for the U.S. debut of “Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera” in Boston Friday night. The brainchild of MIT Media Lab professor and ...

Army and MIT’s way of linking metamaterials makes building a supermileage vehicles, like this one from collaborators Toyota Automotive Society, possible. Supermileage vehicles aim to get the ...

MIT's robot was trained on 12,000 video recordings of GelSight sensor touch data, broken into still image frames, of 200 household objects. Combined with tactile data, this allows the robot to ...