A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.

This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object ...

MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

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 ...

Bees' flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported ...

MIT engineers have built a fast, lightweight robotic arm that can play table tennis like a pro. Designed for high-speed accuracy, the robot sits at one end of a ping pong table and uses a standard ...

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 ...

The color-correcting tool called “SeaSplat” shows underwater features in colors that appear more true to life. The ocean is filled with life, yet much of it remains hidden unless observed at very ...

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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 ...

Clever MIT modular robotics system could give astronauts WORMS By Ben Coxworth March 15, 2023 The spider-inspired WORMS-1 robot – other possible WORMS robots were inspired by animals such elephants, ...