Mechanical engineers designed a robot that can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying in air. Diving birds manage this feat. “So we knew it was possible. Just no one had tried this in a mobile robotic system,” Raphael Zufferey says. Watch video
The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls in the World Cup. But their ongoing work with FIFA is just one of many collaborations with heavy hitters in sports, including the NBA, NFL, and more.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space — but there’s currently no way to verify that satellites aren’t carrying them. Now, an MIT researcher has proposed a new way to detect nuclear weapons in space.
A new chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments. Researchers combined an efficient algorithm with dedicated hardware to rapidly generate 3D maps for navigation using minimal memory and power.
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