MIT engineers build hydrogel ‘tendons’ to boost muscle-powered robots
TL;DR Researchers at MIT created artificial tendons from tough, flexible hydrogel and attached them to lab-grown muscle to form modular…
MIT students study AI, autonomy and robotics for offshore aquaculture in Norway
TL;DR Two MIT undergraduates interned at SINTEF Ocean in Trondheim through an MIT Sea Grant–MISTI program to work on AI…
MIT engineers design microrobot that flies as fast as a bumblebee
TL;DR MIT researchers built an insect-scale flying robot that matches key flight metrics of real insects by pairing a high-performance…
Warehouse Robots Take on Truck Unloading With AI and Heavy-Lift Arms
TL;DR The Pickle Robot Company, founded by MIT alumni, builds one-armed autonomous systems that unload trailers, handling packages up to…
MIT researchers develop speech-to-reality system that fabricates objects
TL;DR MIT engineers created a workflow that converts spoken prompts into physical objects by combining speech recognition, 3D generative models,…
Jennifer Lewis on 3D-printed soft matter: Octobot to patient-specific tissues
TL;DR At MIT.nano’s 2025 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture, Jennifer Lewis outlined advances in 3D printing soft and living materials, from…
Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
TL;DR Researchers at MIT and Stanford built a soft, vine-like robotic gripper that grows from pressurized tubes, coils around targets,…
Japanese Team Builds a Chip That Claims to Outsmart You in Rock-Paper-Scissors
TL;DR Researchers at Hokkaido University and TDK Corp. in Japan have created a chip reported to beat human opponents at…