Tag Archives: MIT

Rodney Brooks, Co-Founder of iRobot, on to New Company

  What do you do after you’ve climbed a mountain? Climb another one. Rodney Brooks, MIT professor, robotic guru, and [...]

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MIT Helps Little Dog Navigate Rough Terrain

Sometimes robot videos just make me laugh. CSAIL at MIT has been working with Boston Dynamics’ robot Little Dog, helping [...]

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Eric Giler Pimps Wireless Electricity at TED 2009

Eric Giler wants to cut the cords out of your life. He’s the CEO of WiTricity, a company looking to [...]

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MIT and Harvard Monitoring Cancer Tumors With an Implant

Worried about the government spying on you through implants? Well, I don’t know if your dental fillings are secret radios, [...]

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Commanding Military Drones – Now iPhone Has an App for That

If you’ve got drones in different area codes, iPhone has an app for that. MIT’s Human and Automation Lab (HAL) [...]

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Programmable Matter: Claytronics or Gershenfeld

We still tell our children “you can be anything when you grow up.” It’s time to start telling them “you’re [...]

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MIT is Organizing New Genetic Parts

If you want to check out a book you go to the library. If you want to get a copy [...]

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