“If muscles are nature’s motors, tendons are the drive shafts—and MIT just built a better one.” That’s how one researcher ...

MIT researchers have developed an AI memory system that lets robots remember objects, locations, and details from real-world environments over time.

“Muscles never clamp directly onto bone.” This anatomical truth, as simple as it sounds, has become the blueprint for a leap ...

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, ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.

Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and NVIDIA Research researchers have developed a powerful new algorithm that drastically accelerates how robots plan their ...

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...