MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser in 30 minutes, pointing toward more autonomous scientific research.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a robotic optics laboratory. This system autonomously assembles and aligns laser cavities with precision. The robot can also correct ...

MIT’s robotic optics lab automates experiments, freeing scientists to study materials and explore quantum applications.

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology ...

MIT researchers have developed a robotic laboratory that can independently assemble and align optics experiments. In a demonstration, the robot built a working laser cavity in about 30 minutes and ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

MIT engineers created a paper-thin swimming robot that uses light-controlled living muscle cells to move and steer through ...

MIT’s tiny robot uses living muscle cells to swim through water, offering a glimpse at how biohybrid machines could power ...