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's DAAAM research gives robots a memory of what it seen, letting it build a detailed map of a space with descriptions that ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long been capable of moving vehicles, assembling chips, and reaching the far ...

MIT's new DAAAM robot memory system marks a major advance in artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional robots, it remembers ...

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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, ...

The big picture: The future of targeted drug delivery may hinge on the development of a tiny battery capable of powering cell-sized robots. MIT researchers have created such a battery and are now ...

A zinc-air microbattery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...