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 ...

Out of all the cool-looking forms that robots can take – humanoid, dogs, fish, crocodiles, snakes, birds, or disembodied arms – a cube seems like a pretty boring choice. But MIT’s new take on the ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. But these new blocks also have a “barcode-like” system on each block face ...

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 researchers have invented a new digital material whose block like design allows the assembly of huge structures like towers, spacecraft and airplanes by snapping blocks together. Parts 10 times ...

[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 ...

This week the former MIT student known as John Romanishin revealed a plan – and working demo units – of a modular self-assembling robot pods. These little beasts may seem the thing of nightmares when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT have proposed a new battery alternative made from very basic materials. Blocks of cement infused with a form of carbon similar to soot could store enough energy to power whole ...

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