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, ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data.

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 ...

A new study out of MIT has created an autonomously functioning robot that can act like a lab technician to test materials, in particular for the properties needed to make solar cells. It can collect ...

Forward-looking: A new chapter in materials science is unfolding at MIT, where researchers have developed a fully autonomous robotic system designed to accelerate the search for advanced ...

Upcycling may not be the only way for garments to shape shift. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Self-Assembly Lab have developed technology that allows a garment to be ...