A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies.

The robotics startup market has matured over the last decade and the cost to produce robots has gone down significantly.

Bees' flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported ...

When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen. Currently the Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus at MIT, he also co-founded three key companies, including ...

MIT engineers have built a fast, lightweight robotic arm that can play table tennis like a pro. Designed for high-speed accuracy, the robot sits at one end of a ping pong table and uses a standard ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object ...

Clever MIT modular robotics system could give astronauts WORMS By Ben Coxworth March 15, 2023 The spider-inspired WORMS-1 robot – other possible WORMS robots were inspired by animals such elephants, ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a novel AI technique that simplifies the process of contact-rich manipulation planning for robots. The method involves using an AI technique called "smoothing" to ...

At the EmTech China 2025 Global Technology Summit last Friday, MIT Technology Review unveiled its annual list of the “50 Smartest Companies,” with ...

MIT's Cheetah robot has finally been let off the leash -- and boy can it run. Watch as it bounds across a grass field, and even jumps over a hurdle. It isn't quite up to the evolutionary magnificence ...