When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen. Currently the Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus at MIT, he also co-founded three key companies, including ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

MIT and NVIDIA Research researchers have developed a powerful new algorithm that drastically accelerates how robots plan their actions. Robots may complete intricate, multistep manipulation tasks in ...

You are never too young to be an inventor. That’s one of the lessons a team of students from Pembroke Pines Charter High ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT have unveiled Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation (F3RM), a ground-breaking system that enables robots to ...

MIT has developed a robot that navigates around spaces to blast the virus with UV light. The team has even tested the system at a Boston-area food bank with encouraging results. Share on Facebook ...

In December 2025, pillars of the robotics community faced difficult times, industry leaders took new positions, and new robot ...

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 composer ...