In a lab wired up to simulate a residential neighborhood, Alex Huang is working to revamp aging power grids into something more like the Internet—a network that might direct energy not just from ...

Researchers at North Carolina State have developed so-called “smart transformers” that MIT considers one of the world’s 10 most important emerging technologies. No, we’re not talking about ...

The idea of transformers is cool even when they just turn from one thing to another, so how much cooler would they be if they could form into anything? That’s the goal MIT aims to achieve with their ...

The future of robots is modular, self-assembling, and kind of scary. Researchers at MIT are working on M-Blocks, tiny, cube-shaped robots that seem only steps away from recreating scenes from ...