Safer skies with self-flying helicopters

In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to…

MIT students win national materials design competition

Two MIT undergrads recently took the top spot — and $2,000 in prize money to share…

Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight

A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its…