In a paper published March 15, a group of researchers at MIT showed that using resilient muscle-like actuators and self-repairing technology can vastly improve the robustness of robotic bees.

Researchers from MIT have developed a bumblebee inspired soft robot that keeps flying even after cutting 20% of its wing tip.

This new 20-pound robot from MIT, meanwhile, is able to bend and swing in the air thanks to power it draws from a dozen electric motors — three motors each for the four individual legs.

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 ...

(Source: Robert MacCurdy/MIT CSAIL) Rus, the Viterbi professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has led several other innovative robotics projects. These include different forms of self ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...