MIT's Cheetah robot has finally been let off the leash -- and boy can it run. Watch as it bounds across a grass field, and even jumps over a hurdle. It isn't quite up to the evolutionary magnificence ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for ...

In an office at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn't the mechanical ...

There's a new version of a very quick quadrupedal robot from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While four-legged robots have garnered no end of attention over the ...

A machine learning method helped a robot pick up objects it had never encountered, while being ready for a new task within 10 to 15 minutes. Researchers at MIT say they have developed a simpler way to ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) was developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to bring an enhancement to robots' capabilities in households, calling this system, ...

MIT researchers have developed a new soft robotics platform able to grip items such as tools using the appropriate amount of force. The Series Elastic End Effectors (SEED) has been designed to allow ...

With robots increasingly being used on factory floors and elsewhere, researchers are looking for ways to help humans work better with their electromechanical counterparts. Scientists at MIT say the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are building swarms of tiny robots that have built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), together with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, has developed a navigation method to convert visual features from images of a robot's environment into text ...

As useful and impressive as robots can be, they present one ubiquitous concern: Will they take our jobs? Robots and other autonomous technologies are rapidly gaining prevalence across a variety of ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a way to train robots faster. Andi Peng, electrical engineering and computer science grad student, says the new method helps robots learn ...