Robotics AI-equipped robots develop situational awareness in Earth’s most uncertain environment | Robotics Aug 22, 2018 An A.I.-equipped robot capable of gaining situational awareness underwater. The black device with the thin blue strip is the robot’s multibeam…
Robotics ‘Building up’ stretchable electronics to be as multipurpose as your smartphone | Robotics Aug 22, 2018 By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable “3D…
Robotics Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize | Robotics Aug 22, 2018 Constantinos (“Costis”) Daskalakis, an MIT professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and principal investigator…
Robotics Must do better: Japan eyes AI robots in class to boost English | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 Japan hopes to use tech to boost education English-speaking AI robots will be helping out in some 500 Japanese classrooms from next year as the…
Robotics Robots will never replace teachers but can boost children’s education | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 Robots can play an important role in the education of young people but will never fully replace teachers, a new study suggests. Writing in Science…
Robotics CSAIL launches new initiative for financial technology | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 Recent advances in automating and digitizing financial services has largely changed how we use technology to make fiscal decisions. As infrastructure…
Robotics Students develop free robot programming simulator | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 Screenshot of RoboScience. Credit: South Dakota School of Mines & Technology When it comes to programming actual robots, things get very…
Robotics More workers working might not get more work done, ants (and robots) show | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many…
Robotics President Reif urges “farsighted national strategy” to address China competition | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 In an op-ed piece published today in The New York Times, MIT President L. Rafael Reif urges a more farsighted response to address China’s attempts to…
Robotics High school students learn to build big ideas | Robotics Aug 21, 2018 A group of high school students, some from as far away as Italy and China, came to MIT’s Edgerton Center this summer to learn more about what it…