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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soft robots that can traverse through diverse environments, swim, crawl, and wiggle like real animals may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but researchers from MIT have brought us one step ...

An unlikely pair of robots and opera singers teamed up for the U.S. debut of “Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera” in Boston Friday night. The brainchild of MIT Media Lab professor and composer ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. “Robotics is not just about creating machines; it’s about creating possibilities,” says Astha Kukreja, a leading figure in the field.

As useful and impressive as robots can be, they present one ubiquitous concern: Will they take our jobs? Robots and other autonomous technologies are rapidly gaining prevalence across a variety of ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.-- Scientists from the U.S. Army and MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms created a new way to link materials with unique mechanical properties, opening up the possibility of ...