MIT researchers may have a better solution: teach robots to predict how even the squishiest items will react to their touch. They've developed a "learning-based" particle simulation system that ...

At MIT, Rus has been working on modular, connected robots for nearly 20 years, including an expanding and contracting cube robot that could connect to others to move around.

The robot has also shown promising results, taking 125 unique measurements per hour in a 24-hour test. The precision and ...

Columbia University and MIT researchers have developed particle robots capable of moving together as a collective. The team drew inspiration from living cells that can move as a group but not ...

Most robots are usually made to do one particular job, so they’re not very adaptable to new situations. But researchers at MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell Universities have developed particle ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how a swarm of interconnected particle robots can move in sync and perform simple tasks such as pushing objects. Developed by engineers at MIT, Columbia, ...

A team of engineers from MIT, Columbia University, Harvard University and Cornell University, looked to biological organisms and human cells for inspiration, developing a "particle robot" made up ...

Technology Meet ‘DribbleBot,’ MIT’s soccer-playing robot Lessons learned creating a robot that can move a ball through mud and snow could help scientists create life-saving robots in the future.

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