In a paper published March 15, a group of researchers at MIT showed that using resilient muscle-like actuators and ...

Poke holes in the robot’s wing motors or chop off part of its propellor, and odds are pretty good it will be grounded.

Its name an acronym for "Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System," WORMS was developed by a team of MIT engineers led by PhD candidate and graduate instructor George Lordos. He suggested the ...

Research shows that people anthropomorphize robots (that is to say they attribute human forms or personality to them). Kate Darling of MIT, a rising ... as participants’ self-assessment of ...

But having a handful of robots, each with its hyper-specific uses, isn't always practical. To MIT, flexibility is vital. Enter WORMS, short for the Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System.

We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT Cheetah Robot is no exception. You’ve undoubtedly seen MIT’s cheetah robot. Well, ...

Researchers at MIT's Synthetic Biology Center have just succeeded writing multiple analog streams of real-time environmental data into the genetically transformed hardware of a distributed ...