Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize | Robotics
Constantinos (“Costis”) Daskalakis, an MIT professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and principal investigator at the…
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Must do better: Japan eyes AI robots in class to boost English | Robotics
Japan hopes to use tech to boost education
English-speaking AI robots will be helping out in some 500 Japanese classrooms from next year as the country…
Robots will never replace teachers but can boost children’s education |…
Robots can play an important role in the education of young people but will never fully replace teachers, a new study suggests. Writing in Science Robotics,…
CSAIL launches new initiative for financial technology | Robotics
Recent advances in automating and digitizing financial services has largely changed how we use technology to make fiscal decisions. As infrastructure and…
Students develop free robot programming simulator | Robotics
Screenshot of RoboScience. Credit: South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
When it comes to programming actual robots, things get very expensive,…
More workers working might not get more work done, ants (and robots) show |…
For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many cooks in a…
President Reif urges “farsighted national strategy” to address China…
In an op-ed piece published today in The New York Times, MIT President L. Rafael Reif urges a more farsighted response to address China’s attempts to dominate…
High school students learn to build big ideas | Robotics
A group of high school students, some from as far away as Italy and China, came to MIT’s Edgerton Center this summer to learn more about what it takes to be an…
Safety and inspection bot startup Gecko Robotics adds $7 million to the…
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Gecko Robotics aims to save human lives at our nation’s power plants with its wall-climbing robots. To…
The Centauro: A new disaster response robot to assist rescue workers to…
Centauro robot at the Evaluation Camp @ Kerntechnische Hilfsdienst GmbH, Nov. 2017
Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia developed, assembled…