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“Autonomous glider can fly like an albatross, cruise like a sailboat. MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat …
“With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world. Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating …
“Researchers at MIT’s Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices. These “plug-and-play” devices, which require little expertise to assemble, can test blood glucose levels …
“Research from the Qweak experiment provides a precision measurement of the proton’s weak charge. narrows the search for new physics. A new result from the Qweak experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator …
“New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner. Observing the world’s oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) — marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide …
“MIT analysis shows when and where advanced photovoltaics would be economic to install. Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge type that delivers more power for a given area but costs more …
“Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes. MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene. The team’s results are the first demonstration of an industrial, scalable …
“Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs. Two and a half years ago, a team of researchers led by groups at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Boston …
“Caffeine is well-known for its ability to help people stay alert, but a team of researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has now come up with a novel use for this chemical stimulant — catalyzing the formation of …
“At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events. A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — easily understands the same type of …