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 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a robotic optics laboratory. This system autonomously assembles and aligns laser cavities with precision. The robot can also correct ...

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 ...

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

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology ...

MIT researchers have unveiled a robotic system capable of autonomously assembling and aligning optics experiments, including constructing a laser cavity in just 30 minutes.

MIT’s tiny robot uses living muscle cells to swim through water, offering a glimpse at how biohybrid machines could power ...

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 ...

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’s robotic optics lab automates experiments, freeing scientists to study materials and explore quantum applications.

MIT researchers have developed a robotic laboratory that can independently assemble and align optics experiments. In a demonstration, the robot built a working laser cavity in about 30 minutes and ...