Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

MIT researchers huddled around a humanoid robot in a mock kitchen. The robot slowly scooped lemonade powder out of a bowl into a pitcher of water, mixed the liquid, and poured the lemonade into a ...

Robots are getting better at recognising objects, navigating buildings and following spoken instructions, but remembering ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long been capable of moving vehicles, assembling chips, and reaching the far ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines ...

You might not've realized it as you groggily rolled out of bed this morning, but you are now living in the future: Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can autonomously assemble flat-pack IKEA ...

MIT's DAAAM research gives robots a memory of what it seen, letting it build a detailed map of a space with descriptions that ...