An alumnus of the class of 1982 writes, "We are proposing a Kiva Robotic Drive Unit be used as the ...

An alumnus of the class of 2008 writes, "Autom™ is a coach designed to help people who are trying to lose and keep off weight. Autom™ helps by encouraging ...

An alumnus of the class of 1949 writes, "In the fall of 1949, I saw a performance by the MIT Dramashop of "Rossum's Universal Robots," in which robotic ...

The annual robotics contest in the Department of Mechanical Engineering teaches students not only about building robots, but also about the spirit of "gracious ...

A film with various clips including a computer display of some kind of geometric or field calculation, a simulation of different-size (and mass) balls ...

Kismet, Cynthia Breazeal's MIT thesis project, is an Kismet is an expressive robotic creature with perceptual and motor modalities tailored to natural human ...

This active instrumented object was built at the MIT Touch Lab to investigate the hand's ability to reflexively grasp and control an object against gravity. In ...

This is the second "arm" developed by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert in their multi-year project to develop a computer system that could "see" and manipulate ...