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The Distributed Robotics Laboratory began as the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College. There the Molecule and Crystal robots were developed, along with several other robot systems including the Inchworm mobile robot, a desktop paper manipulation robot, and a set of robots which cooperated to manipulate furniture. The lab moved to MIT CSAIL in 2004 when our PI Daniela Rus became a professor in the EECS department at MIT. We are currently located on the third floor of the Stata Center, room 32-376.

Our work spans areas including modular and self-reconfiguring robots, soft robotics, rapid design of customizable personal robots, distributed algorithms and systems of self-organizing robots, networks of robots and sensors for first-responders, mobile sensor networks, animals and robots, cooperative underwater robotics, desktop robotics, and forming, moving, and navigating sparse 2D and 3D structures.

Contents for This Page 1 Current Projects 2 Past Projects 3 Collaborative Initiatives 4 Workshops 5 Address, Contact, and Directions

Current Projects

Soft Robotics	Using Muscle and Brain Signals to Supervise Robots	M-Blocks	Wearable Blind Navigation
Printable Hydraulics	Correcting Robot Mistakes Using Brain Signals	Robot Compiler: On-Demand Personal Robots	Geometric Design of Print-and-Fold Robots via Composition
Robot Garden	Project iDiary	Autonomous Assembly	Ubiquitous Indoor Positioning

Past Projects

AMOUR (Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot	Robot Pebbles	Coordinated Construction	Networked Quad-Rotor Flying Robots in Multi-Agent Systems	Deployment and Optimization of Wireless ad-hoc Communication Networks
Traffic Information System	Tracking Objects at Sea: Object Identification and Tracking using HS Histograms	Baking Cookies with the WillowGarage PR2	Markov-based Redistribution Policy Model for Future Urban Mobility Networks	Programmable Smart Sheet
Planning to Fold Multiple Objects from a Single Smart Sheet	Collision Avoidance for Persistent Monitoring in Multi-Robot Systems with Intersecting Trajectories	Generating Informative Trajectories for Robots Persistently Monitoring Unknown Environments	Wing Traversing Robot: using electro permanent magnets to connect and control robots through a separating surface

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Cow Herding with Virtual Fences	Guiding People and Robots with Sensor Networks	Adaptive Architectures for Modular Robots	Distributed Control Algorithms for Networked Mobile Robots	Generic Distributed Self-Reconfiguration Algorithms with Cellular Automata
Miche: Modular Self-Disassembly	The Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Molecule	The Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Robot	Modular Reconfiguring Structures with Shady3D	Vertical Truss Climbing with Shady
Modular Reconfiguring Structures with MultiShady	The Inchworm Robot for Navigating 3D Steel Web Environments	Paper Manipulator	Distributed Manipulation with Touch Sensitive Rope	Early Warning System for River Flood Detection
Accurate Localization System for Indoor Environments	The Distributed Robotics Garden	Locomotion through Programmable Stiffness	Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing Curriculum	Environment Characterization for Non-recontaminating Frontier-Based Robotic Exploration
Visolate: Voronoi Toolpaths for PCB Mechanical Etch	Chembots	EFRI	Programmable Matter

Collaborative Initiatives

Printable Programmable Machines

SMARTS

Workshops

• ICRA 2013 Workshop
• RSS 2014 CaRNet Workshop

Address, Contact, and Directions

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Distributed Robotics Lab
MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar Street, 32-376
Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: 617-253-6532
Fax: 617-253-6849

Walking Directions: Use the entrance nearest the corner of Vassar and Main Streets, with the large granite memorial outside and a large curved mirror inside (Gates entrance at this location). Take the large stairs on your left up to the third floor, or proceed to the elevators on your right and go to the third floor. Continue walking straight and enter the lab (just past the stairway to the fourth floor).