MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
MIT team prepares to meet 24 others in $2 million DARPA competition to develop disaster-assistance robots.
The Nepali Students Association at MIT has raised more than $26,000 to support relief for last month's earthquake in Nepal.
MIT's Balakrishnan Rajagopal is helping to map the crisis of displaced peoples.
New MIT initiative will respond to the deeply human challenge of rebuilding after blight or catastrophe
Community springs to action after the Philippines’ deadliest natural disaster.
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.
Former Sloan Fellow speaks with Dean Schmittlein about response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Lessons learned from the BP oil spill could help both companies and regulators to be more ready for the next emergency.
Ed Akerley called into duty with U.S. Coast Guard
An MIT oceanographer discusses why ‘we have never had a spill like this’ — and what that means for cleanup efforts.