Design

Five objects appear on a whitish background: A blue kettlebell with some microchip components, a silver ringlike object with wires, a roll of corrugated white plastic, a white glove with wires on it, and an off-white corrugated piece of plastic.

Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

FlexBoard is a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of objects with interactive sensors, actuators, and displays on curved and deformable surfaces.

May 18, 2023

Inside the Johnson Athletics Center, Sarah Stoops wears a 2.007 shirt as she uses a remote control to control a metal robot with 4 yellow wheels and lots of wires on top. In the background are balloons, a referee in a striped shirt, and people watching in the stands.

2.007 Forever!

With winches, spinners, and telescoping contraptions, bots go head to head in student robot competition inspired by “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

May 18, 2023

The MIT Press colophon is made of 7 vertical black bars and is on a white background. The black bars are evenly spaced, and 5 are the same height. The 5th from left is taller, alluding to the lowercase “t.” The 6th from left extends below the others, and with the 7th looks like a lowercase “p.”

A symbol with a story

The iconic MIT Press colophon symbolizes the legacy of its creator Muriel Cooper, a graphic design pioneer and longtime member of the MIT community.

May 12, 2023

Danny Braunstein, sitting in a pool of light in an otherwise-dim room, looks at a laptop. There is a professional-grade boom microphone in front of him.

Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab

Daniel Braunstein, director of the Pappalardo Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, found his calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space.

May 11, 2023

Cagri Zaman stands in front of colorfully illustrated wall panels.

Telling stories in space

Cagri Zaman uses immersive media to help people do everything from learning to play piano to learning how to handle heavy machinery.

May 5, 2023

Two by two grid featuring soft robotic animal designs. One resembles a manatee, one looks like a bear, another suggests a shark, and the last looks like a caterpillar

Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

May 2, 2023

Nine people pose in a line in a white room. Three white prototype bathtubs stand before them

MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico

Project helps make learning more accessible for children with multiple disabilities.

April 12, 2023

Portrait photo of Bruce Cameron standing in a small office with windows in the background

Pushing product development into the future

Bruce Cameron's research interests include technology strategy, system architecture, and the management of product platforms.

April 6, 2023

A rendering shows a square historic district hall with a courtyard in the center. It has raised vegetable gardens and trees on its roof. There are spiral staircases leading to the gardens from a lower roof. Lounge chairs and wooden railings are in the lush, green gardens.

Greening roofs to boost climate resilience

Roofscapes, a startup founded by three MIT students, is planning to build green spaces on pitched roofs in Paris, to decrease temperatures while improving quality of life.

April 4, 2023