Bioinspiration
Bioinspiration

Bioinspiration

Artificial Intelligence Autonomous vehicles Bioinspiration Cities Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Computer science and technology Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Infrastructure machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT Sea Grant Research Robotics School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering Senseable City Lab Transportation Urban studies and planning

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering Artificial Intelligence Bioinspiration Drones Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Electronics Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Research Laboratory of Electronics Robotics School of Engineering

MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.

Artificial Intelligence Bioinspiration Civil and environmental engineering Computer science and technology machine learning Mechanical engineering Research School of Engineering Technology and society

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Bioinspiration Civil and environmental engineering Computer science and technology Department of Energy (DoE) machine learning Materials science and engineering MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab National Institutes of Health (NIH) Proteins Research School of Engineering

AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets

These tunable proteins could be used to create new materials with specific mechanical properties, like toughness or flexibility.