Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if …
May 13, 2025 · MIT engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set …
Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines …
Jul 24, 2025 · A vision-based control system called Neural Jacobian Fields enables soft and rigid robots to learn self-supervised motion control using only a monocular camera. The system, …
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Nov 5, 2025 · Teaching robots to map large environments A new approach developed at MIT could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly …
Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
May 8, 2025 · MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot …
MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots
Aug 15, 2024 · A zinc-air microbattery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other …
Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely
Jun 27, 2025 · MIT CSAIL researchers use a generative AI model to improve particular parts of 3D robot designs, helping them jump higher and land safely. The system refines its ideas in …
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping …
Apr 24, 2025 · MIT roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans. The system could be …
Can robots learn from machine dreams? - MIT News
Nov 19, 2024 · LucidSim is an AI-powered simulator that trained a robot dog to perform parkour using generated images without any real-world data. This approach, from MIT CSAIL …
Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely
Dec 12, 2024 · PhD students Aidan Curtis (left) and Nishanth Kumar. To help robots execute open-ended tasks safely, the researchers used vision models to see what’s near the machine …
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · SimPLE (Simulation to Pick Localize and placE), a new model developed by MIT researchers, learns to pick, regrasp and place objects using object’s computer-aided design …