If you are a reporter interested in speaking to Dr. Rus, please email rus-press@csail.mit.edu and include your story topic, deadline and desired interview length. (Please be advised that, due to her heavy travel schedule and work-load, she may not have bandwidth to accommodate all interview requests.)

• Opinion-To compete with China on AI we need a lot more power, The Washington Post

• Opinion – To compete with China on AI we need a lot more power, The Washington Post (link)
• Podcast – The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, Science Magazine
• Podcast – Daniela Rus on Our Bright Future with Robots, The Arik Korman Show
• Podcast – Decoding AI: Robots Are Coming…For Your Chores (and Much More), The Boston Globe
• Scientists say they’ve discovered a ‘phonetic alphabet’ in whale calls, CNN
• Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales, MIT News
• Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations, Nature Communications
• The Dialogue – On AI, Society and What comes next, The Atlantic
• Book – Computing the Future: A Decade of Innovation at MIT CSAIL
• Can We Talk to Whales? New Yorker
• How MIT’s Liquid Neural Networks can solve AI problems from robotics to self-driving cars, VentureBeat
• • The future of AI innovation and the role of academics in shaping it, Op-Ed, Boston Globe

• 3 áreas en las que la inteligencia artificial ya está mejorando nuestras vidas, BBC News Mundo
• Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers, MIT News
• Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks, MIT News
• Robust flight navigation out of distribution with liquid neural networks, Science Robotics
• A simple guide to the expansive world of artificial intelligence, Popular Science
• Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning, QuantaMagazine
• A look into the future of AI at MIT’s robotics laboratory: What does the future hold for robotics and AI?, Mashable.com
• One supply-chain solution: Automate the jobs we can’t fill, The Hill
• Solving brain dynamics gives rise to flexible machine-learning models, MIT News
• New programmable materials can sense their own movements, MIT News
• The hub of the local robotics industry, MIT News
• Podcast: The Dolittle Machine, BBC
• Soft assistive robotic wearables get a boost from rapid design tool, CSAIL news
• New Year’s robolutions, TechCrunch
• One autonomous taxi, please; self-driving Roboats set sea in Amsterdam canals, MIT News
• Meet The World’s Most Influential Women Engineers, Forbes
• Decoding the communicative clicks of sperm whales, CSAIL news
• Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language, National Geographic
• Robo-starfish aims to enable closer study of aquatic life, CSAIL news
• Top 100 Women in Technology, Technology Magazine
• Blue Yonder Announces Inaugural “AI 50” List of World’s Most Influential Artificial Intelligence Leaders, BlueYonder Media Center
• Top 10 Women in AI, AI Magazine
• “Liquid” machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions, MIT News
• 8 Leading Women In The Field Of AI, Forbes
• Computer-aided creativity in robot design, MIT News
• Designing a robot? AI can tell you which shape will work best, World Economic Forum
• A neural network learns when it should not be trusted, MIT News
• Neural networks that imagine others’ states of mind, CSAIL news
• Autonomous boats could be your next ride, CSAIL news
• New deep learning models: Fewer neurons, more intelligence, ScienceDaily
• New deep learning models require fewer neurons, CSAIL news
• System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the road, CSAIL news
• Robot cleaners are coming, this time to wipe up your coronavirus germs, The Washington Post
• First Woman Director At MIT CSAIL: ‘Want More Women In STEM? Inspire Them Early.’, Forbes
• MIT team designs robot that helps fight coronavirus, Yahoo Finance
• This coronavirus-killing MIT robot could end up in your local supermarket, CNN Business
• The Robot That’s Keeping Facilities Clean During Covid-19, Forbes
• MIT’s autonomous robot uses UVC light to kill coronavirus particles on surfaces, TechSpot
• CSAIL Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank, Communications of the ACM
• CSAIL robot disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank, MIT News
• Simple-to-make smart glove gives robots sense and reason, Advanced Science News
• New glove lets you incorporate real-life objects into virtual worlds, CSAIL news
• Marshaling artificial intelligence in the fight against Covid-19, MIT News
• MIT researchers create robot to ease labor for hand-pump ventilators, WCVB5
• MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage, MIT News
• New York Needed Ventilators. So They Developed One in a Month, The New York Times
• MIT showcases soft robotic sensors made from flexible, off-the-shelf materials, TechCrunch
• “Sensorized” skin helps soft robots find their bearings, MIT News
• Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing, IEEE Spectrum’s 8th most read automaton paper of the last decade
• MIT conference focuses on preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence, MIT News
• How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies, MIT News
• Autonomous Cars Can Predict How Selfish Your Driving Is, Forbes
• Predicting people’s driving personalities, MIT News
• Look Who’s Driving, NOVA
• Better autonomous “reasoning” at tricky intersections, MIT News
• Self-transforming robot blocks jump, spin, flip, and identify each other, MIT News
• Helping autonomous vehicles see around corners, MIT News
• Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other, MIT News
• CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT, MIT News
• Bringing human-like reasoning to driverless car navigation, MIT News
• Can Robots Help Pick Up after the Recycling Crisis? Scientific American
• Roboat recognized by NOW Awards, Driven by Design
• Embedded 3D Printing and Sensors Lead to Soft Robotics Fingers, 3DPrinting, Robotics
• Robots that can sort recycling, MIT News
• AVs need new tech to navigate beyond densely mapped cities, AXIOS Newsletter/Expert Voices
• At Singapore’s Test Center, Self-Driving Cars Battle Fake Monsoons, IEEE Spectrum/Cars that Think
• ‘Particle robot’ works as a cluster of simple units, MIT News
• Robot hand is soft and strong, MIT News
• Not just for bots: the changing career landscape in AI, Science
• Robot Revolution, Today Show
• How to Control Robots with Brainwaves and Hand Gestures, MIT News
• The Mother of the Machines, Brigitte
• Rise of the Robots: Are You Ready? Financial Times
• Women ‘Killin It’ in Robotics, The University Network
• MIT Team Overcomes Major Hurdle to Improve Self-Driving Cars, Forbes
• The autonomous car that can drive where others cannot, BBC News
• Self-Driving Cars Won’t Need Accurate Digital Maps, MIT Experts Say, IEEE Spectrum
• Dealing with bumps in the road…literally, Marketplace Tech
• Self-driving cars for country roads, MIT News
• If It Looks Like a Fish and Swims Like a Fish, It Might Just Be a Robot, The Wall Street Journal
• This Robotic Fish Could Change the Way Scientists Study Ocean Life, Fortune
• Can This Robotic Fish Fool Real Fish into Revealing Their Secrets? CNN Tech
• If You Want to Find Nemo, You May Need SoFi, the Robotic Fish, Reuters
• A Realistic Robot Fish Could Help Scientists Spy on Secretive Sea Life, The Verge
• It Looks Like a Fish, but It’s Not. Meet the Robot Built to Spy on Ocean Life, Los Angeles Times
• Soft Robotic Fish Swims Alongside Real Ones in Coral Reefs, MIT News
• It’s Dangerous When You Build Things You Klutz, but MIT’s Robots Will Save You, IEEE Spectrum
• Custom Carpentry with Help from Robots, MIT News
• MIT Turned Old Robots and a Roomba into AI-powered Carpenters, The Next Web
• Robot-Assisted Carpentry Could Save Countless Hands, Fingers, Geek.com
• BBC Click audio interview: MIT’s Intelligence Quest
• Origami Robot Muscles Lift 1000 Times Its Own Weight, BBC News
• Super Strong Robot ‘Muscles’ Inspired by Origami, NPR Science Friday
• Hot Topics in Computing speaker series convenes experts to discuss future of computing, CSAIL News
• New Artificial Muscles Can Give Soft Robots Superpowers, The Wyss Institute
• Robot Muscles Inspired by Origami Lift 1000 Times Their Weight, NPR the two-way
• Soft Origami-Like Robots Lift 1000 Times Their Weight For Under $1, Forbes Tech
• Soft Robots Acquire Origami Skeletons for Super-Strength, Wired Magazine
• Soft Robot Muscles with Origami Skeletons Can Lift 1.000 Times Their Own Weight, The Verge
• More Evidence That Humans and Machines Are Better When They Team Up, MIT Technology Review
• Building Tomorrow’s Robots, MIT Technology Review
• BBC Click video: Origami inspired bots that could perform surgery
• MIT’s Remote Control Robot System Puts VR to Work, TechCrunch
• MIT Remotely Operates Robots with Oculus Rift VR, Geek.com
• This New Robot Can Fly, Race and Swim Like a Bug with Its Special Exoskeletons, Forbes
• Watch This Butterfly-inspired Robot Undergo Mechanical Metamorphosis, Washington Post
• Origami Robots Transform Like Optimus Prime, Science
• Origami Outfits Help These Bots Change Tasks Swiftly, ScienceNews
• “Superhero” Robot Wears Different Outfits for Different Tasks, MIT News
• Helping Blind People Navigate, The Economist
• Robots naar Mars sturen is makkelijker dan robots de was laten vouwen, NRC (Dutch)
• MIT’s Robogami lets you build custom 3D-printable robots from standard, folding parts, TechCrunch
• Custom Robots in a Matter of Minutes, MIT News
• For Robots to Work with People, They Must Understand People, The Economist
• MIT’s Daniela Rus is leading a robotics revolution, TechCrunch
• A Self-Driving Wheelchair-featured video, MIT News
• Helping Blind People Navigate, The Economist
• MIT develops a vibrating wearable to help people with visual impairments navigate, TechCrunch
• Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate, MIT News
• Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research, Forbes
• Next Wave of AI Technology, videotaped interview (clip starts at 3:30) Bloomberg Technology
• Ghost in the Sell: Hollywood’s Mischievous Vision of AI, Scientific American
• Domus Spotlight
• Soft Robotic Structures Fold Themselves Up in Hot Water, IEEE Spectrum
• Brain Wave for Controlling Robots, interview for Click, BBC World Service
• MIT Takes a Step Toward Mind-Controlled Robots, WBUR Bostonomix
• Brain-controlled robots, MIT News
• Mind-Controlled Robot Knows When You Think It’s Made a Mistake, Women@Forbes
• RIA to Present Dr. Gill Pratt and Dr. Daniela Rus with Engelberger Robotics Award, Business Wire
• MIT’s New Wheelchair Drives Itself, Wired
• Just 3000 Ride-Share Vehicles Could Replace NYC’s Whole Taxi Fleet, Women@Forbes
• Four Questions For: Daniela Rus, Gigaom
• How ride-sharing can improve traffic, save money, and help the environment, MIT News
• Study: Carpooling apps could reduce traffic 75%
• On-demand carpooling would slash need for taxis, MIT study says, Boston Globe
• Imagine New York City with 3000 Taxis Instead of 13,000, IEEE Spectrum
• 5 Technology Highlights for 2016 From the Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL Lab, Forbes
• Turning Big Data into Manageable Data, Forbes
• Making big data manageable
• Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
• 3D Printing Robots on Demand, ASME
• Q&A with the First Female Director of MIT’s Largest Research Lab, Forbes/Tech, Sept 12, 2016
• Microsurgeon: Ingestible Origami Robot
• Robotic Consensus
• Bloomberg Interview about Robotics
• Printable Hydraulics
• Robot Fish featured in Washington Post
• CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
• WomenUp: Daniela Rus says leave the tedious work to the robot
• Soft robotic hand can pick up and identify a wide array of objects
• Centimeter-long origami robot
• Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing
• Self-driving golf carts: Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
• Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
• Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing
• Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
• Watch Daniela. She’s Up To Something Big
• Gamechangers
• May 31, 2014 — Algorithm and pipeline for Self-Folding Sheets featured on NBC News
• May 31, 2014 — Algorithm and pipeline for Self-Folding Sheets featured on Mumbai Mirror
• May 30, 2014 — Algorithm and pipeline for Self-Folding Sheets featured on MIT News
• October 3, 2013 — M-Cubes featured on MIT News
• October 3, 2013 — M-Cubes featured on MIT News
• June 2013 — Robot Pebbles featured on NPR
• May 2013 — UP: The Umbrella Projected covered by Boston Herald, WBUR, Boston Globe, Boston.com, CNET, Network World, Boston Inno, Wicked Local, Weekly Dig, and The Verge
• August 14, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in The Inquisitr
• August 13, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Los Angeles Times
• August 13, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Businessweek
• August 13, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Huffington Post
• August 12, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Gizmag
• August 10, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Time
• August 10, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Engadget
• August 10, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Planetsave
• August 10, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in Discovery News
• August 9, 2012 — Meshworm robot featured in BBC News
• July 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured in Hemispheres Inflight Magazine
• June 10, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured in CBC Spark Radio Show
• May 28, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured in IEEE Spectrum
• April 5, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured in Scientific American
• April 4, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured in live interview with Kyle Gilpin on BBC World News Today
• April 3, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured on Huffington Post
• April 2, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured on Slashdot
• April 2, 2012 — Robot Pebbles featured on New Scientist
• September 20, 2011 — Our collaboration with the dance company Pilobolus is featured in The Economist.
• June 4 – August 21, 2011 — Robot Pebbles on display as part of the Modern By Design exhibit at the Atlanta High Museum of Art.
• July 18, 2011 — Our collaboration with the dance company Pilobolus is featured in The Wall Street Journal at Metropolis Blog. A direct link to the the .pdf is available here.
• December 17, 2010 — Our collaboration with the dance company Pilobolus is documented on their blog at Pilobolus Blog. A direct link to the the .pdf is available here.
• July 7, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Discovery News.
• June 29, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the CNET.
• June 29, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Register.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the MSNBC.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Nature News.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Phys.org
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the New Scientist.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Scientific American.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Popular Science.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the ZDNET.
• June 28, 2010 — Our Programmable matter by folding is featured in the Inventorspot
• December 21, 2009 — Our robot Shady is mentioned in the Boston Globe
• December 10, 2009 — The Distributed Robotic Garden was featured in the Economist.
• December 9, 2009 — Our robot Shady is featured in IEEE Spectrum’s Automation Blog
• November 3, 2009 — The programmable matter Pebbles and Miche projects were featured in IEEE Spectrum Special Report: Robots for Real
• December 2, 2008 — The animal modeling and control project was featured in Fortune
• November 24, 2008 — The Distributed Robotic Garden was featured in the New York Times.
• July 9, 2008 — Our paper “Social Control of Herd Animals by Integration of Artificially Controlled Congeners” received the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Osaka, Japan.
• July 2, 2008 — An article about our animals and robots project appeared in the The Economist.
• June 30, 2008 — An article about our animals and robots project appeared in the Boston Globe.
• June 6, 2008 — Our animals and robots project is featured on the USDA Agricultural Research Service website.
• December 10, 2007 — Our robot Shady is featured on the AT&T Tech Channel
• December 3, 2005 — Our robot AMOUR swam for malaria and raised money for 272 mosquito nets.
• Dartmouth News — September 14, 2005: Dartmouth researchers build world’s smallest mobile robot