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 engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that let soft muscle pull on hard plastic with far more force and control. By ...

Created by an engineering team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and led by graduate student Fangzheng Liu and Principal Investigators Ariel Ekblaw and Joseph Paradiso, AstroAnts are ...

Screenshot from video showing underwater robotic vehicle. Credit: Tim Briggs/MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Artificial intelligence and robotics are no longer experimental fields confined to research labs. They are shaping economies, redefining industries, and influencing daily life at global scale. Behind ...