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A new book providing a roadmap for blending innovation with tradition among shrinking towns blossomed from a practicum in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
The senior, who is involved in Dormitory Council, Hydrant, the Student Information Processing Board, and SuperUROP, is double majoring in computer science and engineering and in urban planning.
The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for robots or autonomous vehicles.
The consortium convenes industry, academia, and policy leaders to navigate competing demands and reimagine materials supply.
An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.
Angela Koehler, Iain Cheeseman, and Katharina Ribbeck are shaping the collaborative as a platform for transformative research, translation, and talent development across MIT.
The speech-to-reality system combines 3D generative AI and robotic assembly to create objects on demand.
The Institute will commit up to $1 million in new funding to increase supply of UROPs.
High schooler Hinata Yamahara’s interest in urban planning was nurtured by free MIT resources, including OpenCourseWare.
A new MIT course explores how built environments can both emerge from and reveal the internal dynamics of their geographic context.
Five-year collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to accelerate the energy transition and scale new innovations.
The system can be paired with any atmospheric water harvesting material to shake out drinking water in minutes instead of hours.
4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City), a new subject funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), teaches students about sustainable agriculture in urban areas.