New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
5 days ago · System developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL and LIDS uses rigorous mathematics to ensure robots flex, adapt, and interact with people and objects in a safe and precise way. It helps …
Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to ...
Jul 24, 2025 · A vision-based control system called Neural Jacobian Fields enables soft and rigid robots to learn self-supervised motion control using only a monocular camera. The system, developed by …
New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds
Jun 5, 2025 · A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds.
Teaching robots to map large environments - MIT News
Nov 5, 2025 · The artificial intelligence-driven system incrementally creates and aligns smaller submaps of the scene, which it stitches together to reconstruct a full 3D map, like of an office cubicle, while …
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they ...
May 13, 2025 · A figure shows the entire robot system, which includes inflatable airbags, a U-shaped fork with vertical handlebars, an omnidirectional swerve drive base, a rapid pneumatic release …
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · A new paper by MechE researchers published in the journal Science Robotics explores pick-and-place solutions with more precision. In precise pick-and-place, also known as kitting, the …
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
Apr 24, 2025 · MIT roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans. The system could be used in smart …
A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots - MIT News
Oct 28, 2024 · To train better general-purpose robots, MIT researchers developed a versatile technique that combines a huge amount of heterogeneous data from many of sources into one system that can …
Can robots learn from machine dreams? - MIT News
Nov 19, 2024 · LucidSim is an AI-powered simulator that trained a robot dog to perform parkour using generated images without any real-world data. This approach, from MIT CSAIL researchers, scales …
Simulation-based pipeline tailors training data for dexterous robots ...
Jul 11, 2025 · The PhysicsGen system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers tailors robot training data to specific machines, helping them find the most efficient movements for a task. The system can …