PVC pipe, three motors and a tethered switch box. That’s the recipe for this underwater robot. It’s SeaPerch, launched by MIT ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers developed a robot powered by living muscle cells that move in response to flashes of light.

The swimmer has no motor, propeller or battery. Instead, its two soft fins are coated with a single sheet of living mouse ...

MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin swimming robot powered by a single layer of ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right. In a paper published Sept. 28 in the journal Advanced ...

MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser in 30 minutes, pointing toward more autonomous scientific research.

MIT engineers created a paper-thin swimming robot that uses light-controlled living muscle cells to move and steer through ...

Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system, named LucidSim, uses AI-generated images to train a robot dog in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a senior tech contributor who writes about science and technology MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a new system that ...

Scientists around the world have been taking cues from the best technologist – nature – to design robots that can be helpful for areas where humans cannot reach. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.