Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

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 ...

MIT’s Daniela Rus is redefining robotics with empathy leading CSAIL and Liquid AI recent $250m series A to build technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a novel AI technique that simplifies the process of contact-rich manipulation planning for robots. The method involves using an AI technique called "smoothing" to ...

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, ...

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 ...

An unlikely pair of robots and opera singers teamed up for the U.S. debut of “Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera” in Boston Friday night. The brainchild of MIT Media Lab professor and composer ...

NBA player Jaylen Brown was once labeled “too smart” to join the very league he would go on to earn a historic contract with. Athlon Sports reports Brown graduated Wheeler High School in Marietta, GA, ...