Printing objects that can incorporate living organisms A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in. January 23, 2020 Read full story →
Audio explainer: Exploring the fields of bioprinting and biohybrid materials January 23, 2020 Read full story →
Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT. November 19, 2019 Read full story →
High school teams receive 2019-20 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Grant for invention projects Fourteen student teams nationwide awarded up to $10,000 in grants to address local and global problems. October 29, 2019 Read full story →
SMART develops a way to commercially manufacture integrated silicon III-V chips New method from MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore paves the way for improved optoelectronic and 5G devices. October 3, 2019 Read full story →
System helps smart devices find their position Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas. October 2, 2019 Read full story →
3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next? Brian Anthony, co-leader of SENSE.nano, discusses sensing for augmented and virtual reality and for advanced manufacturing. September 20, 2019 Read full story →
J-WAFS announces 2019 Solutions Grants supporting agriculture and clean water Projects address access to clean water in Nepal via wearable E. coli test kits, improving the resilience of commercial citrus groves, and more. September 17, 2019 Read full story →
MIT engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward next-generation computers. August 28, 2019 Read full story →
Automating artificial intelligence for medical decision-making Model replaces the laborious process of annotating massive patient datasets by hand. August 5, 2019 Read full story →
Smart workout apparel, “Vegetable Assassins,” and inspiration from medieval music In a popular EECS class, student teams design, program, build, and demonstrate their own cloud-connected, handheld, or wearable embedded systems. June 25, 2019 Read full story →
Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces Techniques could lead to personalized wearable and implantable devices. June 19, 2019 Read full story →
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award D-Lab noted for its "work to address the daily challenges of poverty through design." June 18, 2019 Read full story →
This robot helps you lift objects — by looking at your biceps CSAIL system can mirror a user's motions and follow nonverbal commands by monitoring arm muscles. May 22, 2019 Read full story →
Amnahir Peña-Alcántara named 2019 Knight-Hennessy Scholar Fellowship funds graduate education at Stanford University and prepares global leaders. May 20, 2019 Read full story →