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MIT is a robotics company founded 1993, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Research category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
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No deployment evidence on file
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against MIT.
In Research & Prototype, Saildrone, HEBI Robotics and NASA have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →MIT Humanoid Robotics Group research projects including Cog (humanoid robot for sensorimotor learning), Kismet (robot head for affective computing and social interaction), and Genghis (six-legged robot demonstrating emergent behavior from decentralized controllers). Academic research group, not a commercial robotics company.
Active products
1
RoboIndex
50.17
RoboScore 46.40 + Momentum 3.77
Company facts
- HQ
- Cambridge, United States
- Founded
- 1993 · 33 yrs
RoboScore
46.40 RoboScore + 3.77 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #14 of 51·Research·best robot 39.08 + depth 0.00 + news 3.77 = total 42.85
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Kismet robot head created by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as experiment in affective computing
Genghis six-legged robot built by Rodney Brooks at MIT
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
+3.77momentumof 15 maxMIT builds tiny paper-thin robot that swims using living muscle cells
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
Why MIT has been in the news, across 14 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
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