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, ...

MIT researchers huddled around a humanoid robot in a mock kitchen. The robot slowly scooped lemonade powder out of a bowl into a pitcher of water, mixed the liquid, and poured the lemonade into a ...

Robots are getting better at recognising objects, navigating buildings and following spoken instructions, but remembering ...

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

If you asked me to compile a list of the four most influential things to come out of MIT in the past 25 years — things that have truly changed the world — it wouldn’t include any drugs, software, ...