MIT CSAIL researchers established new connections between combinatorial and continuous optimization, which can find global solutions for complex motion-planning puzzles.

Researchers have, for the first time, printed a robotic hand with bones, ligaments, and tendons made of different polymers.

Human Guided Exploration (HuGE) enables AI agents to learn quickly with some help from humans, even if the humans make mistakes.

Computer vision enables contact-free 3D printing, letting engineers print with high-performance materials they couldn’t use before.

The team’s new algorithm finds failures and fixes in all sorts of autonomous systems, from drone teams to power grids.

A "Softbotics" replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed 450 million years ago, could offer new insight into the evolution of locomotion.

By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.