One reason humans fear robots — and autonomous technologies in general — is the potential for them to spiral out of our control (perhaps taking over the world while they’re at it). Since we don’t yet ...

At the threshold of the autonomous revolution, one fact has remained stubbornly consistent for the last half-century: Controlling robots is a pain. Virtual reality, it turns out, could be the key to ...

MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been a monumental undertaking in computation. Soft robots ...