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A robotic arm builds a lattice-like stool after hearing the prompt “I want a simple stool,” demonstrating how the system translates speech into real-time fabrication.

MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics

12.05.25
“This is a pragmatic solution that’s not trying to reshape the world as we dream of it. It’s looking at the problem at hand today and fixing it,” Cameron Halliday says.

A new take on carbon capture

11.19.25
Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, an Institute Professor and MIT’s executive vice provost, has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, effective Jan. 16.

Paula Hammond named dean of the School of Engineering

12.05.25
NEET scholars install their team's solar-powered charging station in an MIT campus courtyard as part of 22.03/3.0061 (Introduction to Design Thinking and Rapid Prototyping), a class offered through the NEET Climate and Sustainability Systems thread.

Resurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station

12.09.25
An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has endured for thousands of years.

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

12.09.25
The company’s one-armed robots autonomously unload trailers, picking up boxes weighing up to 50 pounds and placing them onto onboard conveyor belts for warehouses of all types.

Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting

12.05.25
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Four 3D structures, pictured on bottom, were transformed from flat configurations made of interconnected tiles (top) with a single pull of a string. The middle row shows, in red, the optimized string path and lift points for each object.

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

12.23.25