Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that let soft muscle pull on hard plastic with far more force and control. By ...

MIT’s new robot reimagines the design of the insect around the biological form and flight dynamics of real pollinators. The resulting robot, with a mass of less than one gram, can hover for about ...