Research

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Group

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Our main goal is developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.

Tomaso Poggio

Leads

Tomaso Poggio

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tomaso Poggio

Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

This CoR aims to develop AI technology that synthesizes symbolic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning for dealing with uncertainty in the world, and statistical methods for extracting and exploiting regularities in the world, into an integrated picture of intelligence that is informed by computational insights and by cognitive science.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity

Lead

Howard Shrobe

Research Group

Computational Perception & Cognition

We combine methods from computer science, neuroscience and cognitive science to explain and model how perception and cognition are realized in human and machine.

Aude Oliva

Leads

Aude Oliva

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Big Data

Lead

Aude Oliva

Research Group

Marine Robotics Group

Our projects are centered around the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots operating in underwater and terrestrial environments.

John Leonard

Leads

John Leonard

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

John Leonard

Research Group

Sensing, Learning and Inference

We develop scalable algorithms for analysis of complex, high-dimensional data.

John Fisher

Leads

John Fisher

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Big Data

Internet of Things

Lead

John Fisher

Research Group

Weiss Laboratory for Synthetic Biology

The Weiss Lab seeks to create integrated biological systems capable of autonomously performing useful tasks, and to elucidate the design principles underlying complex phenotypes.

Leads

Research Areas

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Learning and Intelligent Systems

9 Project Results

Project

Active Learning of Models for Planning

Machine Learning

We aim to develop a systematic framework for robots to build models of the world and to use these to make effective and safe choices of actions to take in complex scenarios.

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Big Data

Entertainment

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Project

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

A system that can help you to design our own drone!

Tao Du

Leads

Tao Du

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Tao Du

Project

Distributed Robot Garden

The robot garden provides an aesthetically pleasing educational platform that can visualize computer science concepts and encourage young students to pursue programming and robotics.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Lindsay Sanneman

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Project

Drones that Drive

Multi-robot path planning for robot swarms that can both fly and drive

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Printable Hydraulics

Printable Hydraulics allows fluid-actuated robots to be automatically fabricated using 3D printers.

Youbin Kim

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Youbin Kim

Project

Robot Compiler

The Robot Compiler allows non-engineering users to rapidly fabricate customized robots, facilitating the proliferation of robots in everyday life. It thereby marks an important step towards the realization of personal robots that have captured imaginations for decades.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Andrew Spielberg

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Internet of Things

Project

Robots Adapting to Human Intent

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Our goal is to develop algorithms for allowing robots to adapt intelligently to humans when they are working together as a team.

Brian Williams

Leads

Brian Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Brian Williams

Project

Sensorized Soft Electric Hands with Handed Shearing Auxetics

Putting a twist on traditional pneumatic soft robots via handed shearing auxetics

Lillian Chin

Leads

Lillian Chin

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Lillian Chin

Project

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

What if we could control robots more intuitively, using just hand gestures and brainwaves?

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Sensorized Soft Electric Hands with Handed Shearing Auxetics

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

4 People Results

Lillian Chin

Graduate Student

E ltchin@mit.edu

Lead

Member