
Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines
Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, and robotic …
Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dec 10, 2025 · Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.
MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics
Dec 5, 2025 · MIT researchers at the School of Architecture and Planning developed a speech-to-reality system that combines generative AI, natural language processing, and robotic assembly to fabricate …
Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Apr 3, 2023 · MIT-developed soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one …
MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times ...
Feb 10, 2025 · Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.
Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life - Live Science
Nov 1, 2024 · Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
Jan 15, 2025 · New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and …
Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches ... - MIT News
Jul 24, 2025 · A 3D-printed robotic arm holds a pencil as it trains using random movements and a single camera — part of a new control system called Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF). Rather than relying on …
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from …
Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin ...
Jul 7, 2025 · Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings ...