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At Active Surfaces’ manufacturing development facility, the company tests and optimizes equipment for its first-of-its-kind commercial-scale manufacturing plant. Here, a solar energy film is fabricated in an industrial roll-to-roll printer — a device key to cost-effective mass production.

Active Surfaces aims to install peel-and-stick solar panels everywhere

Carlos Mariano Salcedo is a student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program. “MIT has taught me how to learn,” he says.

Seeing sounds

A man in a navy suit gestures with both hands while presenting in front of a screen displaying scientific images and partial text.

Vincent Sitzmann named Junior Bose Award winner

MIT ranks No. 1 in 12 subject areas in the 2026 QS World University Rankings, the organization announced.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026

Graduate student Dian Li working with a robotic hand.

Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

“The most important outcome is the community that emerged,” says Svetlana Boriskina, a principal research scientist at MIT and director of the Multifunctional Metamaterials Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “These teams built tools — but they also built relationships that will carry this work forward.”

MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine