MIT engineers have unveiled a groundbreaking method aimed at enhancing household robots’ capabilities to adapt to unforeseen ...
3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many ...
Plenty of companies have demoed home robots, but few, if any, have actually been released. The truth is that even the most advanced robots aren't very good at interacting with objects and ...
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MIT's Daniela Rus isn’t worried that robots will take over the world. Instead, she envisions robots and humans teaming up to achieve things that neither could do alone. In this excerpt from ...
NOT that we’re looking to alarm you or anything but scientists have discovered that xenobots – synthetic lifeforms – have learned to reproduce. According to New Scientist, “swarms of tiny ...
As director of CSAIL and head of MIT’s Distributed Robotics Lab, Daniela Rus is dreaming up our robot-filled future. MIT computer scientist Daniela Rus is dreaming up our robot-filled future.
Stabilizing an inverted pendulum is a classic problem in control theory, and if you’ve ever taken a control systems class you might remember seeing pages full of differential equations and bode ...
Though the increasing number of warehouse robots often optimize efficiency, they can also experience a problem that some consider uniquely human: traffic jams. A group of engineers at the ...
Technology is changing so quickly that it’s hard to separate hype from reality. This is especially true in robotics. We’re told the future of robotic cars has arrived. And yet over 2 million ...
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