To demo the algorithm, the robot helped put a jacket on a human, which could potentially prove to be a powerful tool in expanding assistance for those with disabilities or limited mobility.
Motional, MIT roboticists to examine the future of human-robot collaboration in RoboBusiness Direct
In their RoboBusiness Direct session moderated by MassRobotics Executive Director Tom Ryden, Motional CTO Laura Major and MIT Professor Julie Shah will examine the future of human-robot interaction.
Metamaterials could lead to transforming robots, say U.S. Army, MIT researchers
The U.S. Army and MIT are exploring how metamaterials can help form modular robotic building blocks for transforming robots that can be reconfigured into different shapes and functions.
The future of human-robot collaboration the subject of a new book, RoboBusiness Direct session
“What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots” is a new book co-authored by MIT Associate Professor Julie Shah and Motional CTO Laura Major that explores a future populated with robot helpers.
MIT’s Hugh Herr reveals joys (and challenges) of commercializing bionic limbs
Industrial Robot’s Joanne Pransky interviews Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics Research Group and Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT use Spot robot to measure patient vitals without contact
Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers posed by Covid-19 by using robots to remotely measure patients’ vital signs.
MIT system improves robots’ spatial perception
MIT researchers have developed a representation of spatial perception for robots that is modeled after the way humans perceive and navigate the world.
MIT creates tactile-reactive robot gripper that manipulates cables
MIT CSAIL created a system that uses two robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers to handle cables with unprecedented dexterity.
UVC robot built by MIT CSAIL disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
Using ultraviolet light, a UVC robot developed by MIT and Ava Robotics can disinfect a warehouse floor in half an hour. It could one day be used in grocery stores, schools, and other public spaces
Vecna Robotics appoints AI expert Director Daniela Rus to its board of directors
MIT AI researcher Daniela Russ, who has two decades of experience developing human-machine collaboration, has joined Vecna Robotics’ board of directors.
RISE Robotics raises funding for high-performance linear actuators
The Engine has invested in RISE Robotics, which is developing electric and mechanical systems to displace hydraulics and reduce energy consumption.
Simulation engine from MIT trains self-driving cars before they hit real roads
A photorealistic simulation system enables autonomous vehicles to learn to drive in the real world and recover from near-crash scenarios.
MIT researchers look under the road to aid self-driving cars
Weather poses problems for self-driving car sensors, but ground-penetrating radar from MIT could be superior to cameras or lidar.
‘Sensorized’ skin enables soft robotic arm to feel its own way at MIT
A ‘sensorized’ soft robotic arm combines soft sensors and machine learning to know where it is in a 3D environment.
Stretchy robots get new MIT model to optimize design, controls
Because they can move in multiple dimensions, optimizing soft robots to perform complex tasks is a huge computational challenge, but a new MIT model can help
‘Learning-in-the-loop’ method optimizes control of soft robots
MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been a monumental undertaking in computation. Soft robots have springy, flexible, stretchy bodies that can essentially move an infinite number of ways at any given moment. Computationally, this represents a highly complex “state…
Merging at tricky intersections gets easier for self-driving cars with MIT, TRI model
MIT and Toyota researchers have developed a model to alert driverless cars when it’s safest to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
Flexible robot from MIT can ‘grow’ like a plant to reach in tight spaces
MIT researchers have designed a flexible robot whose extendable appendage can work through tight spaces and still lift heavy loads.
Bipedal robot has humanlike balance for running and jumping
Little HERMES, a bipedal robot developed by researchers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, uses teleoperation method to improve its balance.
Omnipush dataset teaches robots how to push objects
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system physically pushing hundreds of different objects. Using the dataset — the largest and most diverse of its kind — researchers can train robots to “learn” pushing dynamics that are fundamental to many complex object-manipulation tasks,…
Robotic assembly with swarms and blocks could build aircraft, space habitats
Robotic assembly of large structures, made possible with swarms of relatively simple robots and construction materials organized like building blocks, could change how aircraft and buildings are constructed, said MIT researchers.
Immune response to implants mitigated in soft robotics breakthrough
A international team of researchers said their discovery could enable devices such as pacemakers, breast implants, biosensors, and drug-delivery devices to last longer and function better.