3-D printing

MIT has over 40 design/build/project spaces — and the MakerLodge program is designed to serve as an entry point into that thriving making community.

Basic training

New MakerLodge program ushers freshmen into the making community.

September 9, 2016

The mechanical arm pictured here was created for people without a wrist or arm. The herringbone gears and arm base are printed in one full piece. Once that piece is printed, an Arduino motherboard and sensors, pictured above the arm, and a motor are attached to the arm.

Lincoln Laboratory lends a 3-D-printed hand

Researchers improve the designs for low-cost 3-D-printed arms and hands.

September 1, 2016

In this series, a 3-D printed multimaterial shape-memory minigripper, consisting of shape-memory hinges and adaptive touching tips, grasps a cap screw.

3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes

Heat-responsive materials may aid in controlled drug delivery and solar panel tracking.

August 26, 2016

The MIT MakerWorks team currently comprises 35 passionate graduate students, called mentors, who staff and administer the shop. The space has almost 600 total users, all of whom have attended Maker Mondays, a required introductory session that trains newcomers on policies and basic tools.

A makerspace for students, by students

Initiated and led by students, MIT MakerWorks fosters making with strong engineering focus.

June 22, 2016

A student participates in the MIT maker community.

Featured video: Making makers at MIT

In celebration of the White House's Week of Making, a look at the vibrant makerspace ecosystem around the Institute.

June 20, 2016

“It’s very inspiring to see how these [hair-like] structures occur in nature and how they can achieve different functions,” says Jifei Ou, a graduate student in media arts and sciences at MIT. “We’re just trying to think how can we fully utilize the potential of 3-D printing, and create new functional materials whose properties are easily tunable and controllable.” Pictured is an examp...

Need hair? Press “print”

With fur, brushes, and bristles, Media Lab’s technique opens new frontier in 3-D printing.

June 16, 2016

Since 2013, John Hart (standing, center) has been teaching the MIT graduate course 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), which explores the fundamentals of 3-D printing.

3-D Printing 101

As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with others.

May 11, 2016

This 3-D hexapod robot moves via a single motor, which spins a crankshaft that pumps fluid to the robot’s legs. Besides the motor and battery, every component is printed in a single step with no assembly required.

First-ever 3-D printed robots made of both solids and liquids

System from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab 3-D prints hydraulically-powered robot bodies, with no assembly required.

April 6, 2016

MIT alumnus Sidhant Pai ’14, 2014 IDEAS Winner, ProtoPrint, India. ProtoPrint raises the income of waste collectors in India by turning recycled plastic into 3-D printing filament.

Celebrating 15 years of innovating for the greater good

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge has helped launch 128 student-led projects around the world.

March 25, 2016

An illustration of the surface acoustic wave generators, with the generated 3-D trapping nodes. The inset indicates a single particle within a 3-D trapping node, which can be manipulated independently along x, y, or z axes.

Acoustic tweezers manipulate cells with sound waves

Technique could enable 3-D printing of cellular structures for tissue engineering.

January 25, 2016

3 Questions: Neil Gershenfeld and the spread of Fab Labs

Ten years after launching Fab Lab, the project’s founder describes the program’s research, global impact.

January 4, 2016

This self-folding microbot was among the many innovations that emerged from CSAIL in 2015.

Data, drones, and 3-D-printed hearts

Looking back on the year that was: Highlights from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2015.

December 8, 2015

Mars habitat designed by MIT faculty and students

Interplanetary architecture

Faculty and students grapple with 3-D printing a habitable structure on Mars.

October 15, 2015

A new soft robotic gripper from MIT can estimate the size and shape of an object accurately enough to identify it from a set of multiple items.

Soft robotic hand can pick up and identify a wide array of objects

Team from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab develops silicone rubber gripper and advanced object-identification algorithms.

September 30, 2015

New system from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers converts MRI scans into 3D-printed heart models (shown here).

Personalized heart models for surgical planning

System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.

September 17, 2015

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