Bringing it all back home
In MIT visit, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf PhD ’81 offers a road map for creating more manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
A factory for FrEDs at MIT
Graduate students create on-campus assembly factory for fiber extrusion devices.
MIT team places 3rd in materials design competition with novel 3D printable metal
New material could be used by Tesla to produce all-electric vehicles with just a few massive parts.
Forging political alliances through supply chains
International firms sharing production networks lobby together to secure favorable trade conditions.
Using artificial intelligence to control digital manufacturing
Researchers train a machine-learning model to monitor and adjust the 3D printing process to correct errors in real-time.
Silk offers an alternative to some microplastics
Researchers have developed a biodegradable system based on silk to replace microplastics added to agricultural products, paints, and cosmetics.
Companies use MIT research to identify and respond to supply chain risks
Pinpointing risks can also help businesses save money as they become more resilient.
Soft assistive robotic wearables get a boost from rapid design tool
Scientists have created a design and fabrication tool for soft pneumatic actuators for integrated sensing, which can power personalized health care, smart homes, and gaming.
Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
MIT’s LEAP at MIT.nano is the first in a network to advance manufacturing for the state.
MIT scientists develop low-cost, high-precision fabrication method for thin mirrors and silicon wafers
A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical applications.
New program bolsters innovation in next-generation artificial intelligence hardware
MIT AI Hardware Program launches with five inaugural companies to advance AI technologies for the next decade.
3 Questions: How the MIT mini cheetah learns to run
CSAIL scientists came up with a learning pipeline for the four-legged robot that learns to run entirely by trial and error in simulation.
Study examines how machine learning boosts manufacturing
Researchers surveyed 100 high-performing companies to determine which of them are leading adopters of machine intelligence and data analytics, and how they succeed.
Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space
Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
Using deep imaging for higher resolution
Akasha Imaging, an MIT Media Lab spinout, provides efficient and cost-effective imaging with higher-resolution feature detection, tracking, and pose orientation.