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MIT's new motion capture tech boasts more versatility at a fraction of the cost

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 1:16pm

What you see up above is a projection sensor, part of MIT's new motion capture system known as Second Skin. Those green bars you see projected onto the wall is just one of 10,000 different patterns the sensor will spit...

MIT introduces networked plants tended by robot gardeners

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 6:58am

We think that robot teachers may be a bit much, but what about robot gardeners? Students and researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed robots that tend to tomato plants— no human intervention required. The...

GreenWheel gives any bike an electric push

Michael Trei

Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:49am

There's no shortage of electric bikes on the market these days, the trouble is that most of them cost thousands of dollars. By adding an electric boost to your existing bike, the GreenWheel is designed to make electric biking...

TOFU is the most cuddly robot ever

Friday, January 16, 2009 - 12:50pm

The TOFU is perhaps the first robot that I want to pick up and hug. Developed by the ubernerds at the MIT Media Lab, he's an adorably fuzzy little bot with OLED screens for eyes. He dances to music!...

A swarm of robotic weather planes could finally bring accurate forecasts

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 1:30pm

We all know to take weather forecasts with a grain of salt. Weathermen can tell us what's coming with pretty decent accuracy a day or two in advance using a bevy of sensors all over the country — as...

MIT tapped to design cleaner, greener, and quieter aircraft of the future

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:28am

With all this talk about electric cars, solar power, and wind energy being bandied about, we haven't heard much about how to power those gas-guzzling tin cans of the sky. That's why NASA tapped the smarty-pants engineers at MIT...

Trees generate enough electricity to wirelessly yell 'help' during a forest fire

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 10:40am

In the middle of the deep woods, electrical outlets are rare. So if you want to apply power to sensors that alert firefighters of an impending conflagration, what do you do? Those smarty-pants scientists at MIT have it all...

20,000 Feet Below The Sea: MIT's underwater robot explores the ocean all alone

Kevin Hall

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 1:37pm

Once the Odyssey IV dives below the surface, it's all on its own. Developed by MIT's Sea Grant Program, the Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) is designed to explore deep down below the ocean — as far...

Major discovery could someday use solar energy to turn water into hydrogen

Friday, August 1, 2008 - 8:22am

Isn't science wonderful? The day after I bashed fuel cell tech for being impractical, MIT scientists break the news of a major discovery that might change everything. In what’s being called a “revolutionary leap,” MIT chemistry professor Daniel Nocera...

Finnegan the RoboTurtle takes a page from Mother Nature

Kevin Hall

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 4:44am

Your average autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) uses propellers or jets to maneuver underwater, but Finnegan the RoboTurtle, described as an "agile and aggressively maneuvering biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle," is shaking things up with a new way to get...

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MIT stories

MIT's new motion capture tech boasts more versatility at a fraction of the cost

MIT introduces networked plants tended by robot gardeners

GreenWheel gives any bike an electric push

TOFU is the most cuddly robot ever

A swarm of robotic weather planes could finally bring accurate forecasts

MIT tapped to design cleaner, greener, and quieter aircraft of the future

Trees generate enough electricity to wirelessly yell 'help' during a forest fire

20,000 Feet Below The Sea: MIT's underwater robot explores the ocean all alone

Major discovery could someday use solar energy to turn water into hydrogen

Finnegan the RoboTurtle takes a page from Mother Nature

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