Nick Morales used his final project in the MSR program to investigate a form of robotics that enables machines to predict human intent to move and position large, heavy objects. Anyone who has ever ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Researchers in the the labs of Ron Alterovitz, a Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Jim Cahoon, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have developed a digital laboratory system that fully automates the material synthesis and the structural and physical property ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...

Millions of partially sighted and blind persons don't have guide dogs. Autonomous machines may one day close the accessibility gap. By Mack DeGeurin Published Mar 11, 2024 10:55 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more. Inside a lab in Boston University's ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...