MIT’s Incredible Ingestible Origami Robot
The magnetically steered origami robot can be folded into an ice capsule and ingested. Once melted, it can perform various tasks inside the body. (Photo credit: MIT) Researchers at the Massachusetts...
View ArticleMIT’s Decentralized Algorithm for Teams of Robots
(Original painting: Christine Daniloff/MIT) Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and...
View ArticleRobotic Garden: Part II Making It Marketable
E D U B O T S SHAPING THE FUTURE OF ROBOTICS Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Cambridge, MA Building Code Skills In A Robotic Garden, by Lindsay Sanneman Lindsay Sanneman, Software Engineer,...
View ArticleMIT’s nuTonomy: Winning the Driverless Race
MIT’s NuTonomy team recently secured $3.6M to develop “the world’s smartest autonomous vehicle.” (Photo credit: NuTonomy) nuTonomy Inc., a small MIT spinout that has developed advanced software for...
View ArticleBorrowing Human Reflexes for a Bot
MIT PhD student Joao Ramos demonstrates the Balance Feedback Interface system on HERMES. Researchers at MIT have developed a robotic system that uses a human operator’s innate balancing ability to stop...
View ArticleMIT’s Origami Robot
MIT’s self-folding robot can walk and swim on top of fluids. (Photo credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT) MIT researchers have built a origami robots. When heated, the paper thin, previously flat robots...
View ArticleMIT’s Cheetah Jumps Over Obstacles Autonomously
The Cheetah 2 is the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously. (Photo credit: Haewon Park, Patrick Wensing, and Sangbae Kim.) MIT engineers have expanded the capabilities of...
View ArticleVisualization System Projects Robot’s Thoughts
A projection system displays a robot’s thoughts regarding path planning. Photo courtesy of Melanie Gonick/MIT. Researchers at MIT have built a system that displays an autonomous robot’s path planning...
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