It’s been an eerie week in robot news. Boston Dynamics, a Waltham-based company, released—quite literally—a beast of a robotic invention with animal-like features, allowing it to run at speeds of up ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs&w=640&h=480] Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of ...

What if robots could reassemble themselves at will? The liquid metal cyborg in Terminator was terrifyingly useful. It could look like anyone, repair shotgun blasts, even turn its hand into a murderous ...

When the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group introduced inFORM a couple years ago, the internet collectively lost its shit. It’s easy to see why. The shapeshifting display, which translates digital ...

Sure, people can make life-sized replicas of Batman and Robin, or small versions of city skyscrapers using LEGOs. But scientists and researchers out of MIT have upped the ante, and created a way for ...

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

These brightly colored blocks may look like child’s toys, but watch out: These adorable cubes are actually spinning robots that can connect to build modular machines. There’s no assembly required: The ...

Two years ago, MIT’s Tangible Media Lab demonstrated the inFORM project, a “dynamic shape display” that, through a series of pins and actuators, could physically change shape in response to the user ...

Next to Boston Dynamics' leaping humanoids, the dice-like M-Block robots from MIT might not look very cool. Considering their lack of limbs, though, the latest versions can perform some impressive ...

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