Tagged MIT

Five decades after humans first set foot on the Moon, a new initiative is underway to bring us back—and this time, the aspiration is to settle there on a permanent basis. Today, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...

A team of engineers from MIT and NASA has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and...

MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind. The 90-pou...

A breathing sports shoe, that grows its own air passageways to enable personalized ventilation? A learning insole that prevents fatigue and improves athletes’ performance? A t-shirt that responds to environme...

The BMW Design Department in collaboration with MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Self-Assembly Laboratory have successfully developed printed inflatable material technologies that self- transform...

Spyce is the world’s first restaurant featuring a robotic kitchen that uses mechanical woks to autonomously prepare meals. Founded by four MIT graduates with a vision to reinvent fast casual dining, and led b...

Founded by three MIT students, Boston-based start-up Ministry of Supply has designed a self-heating smart jacket that responds to changes in temperature. The Mercury Intelligent Heated Jacket is a tech-power...

Researchers at MIT’s Tangible Media Group have developed a concept of Transformative Appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch), commonly called pasta, can tr...

A team of MIT engineers have partnered with designer Yves Béhar to realize a system of robotic furniture system for micro apartments that transforms at the touch of a button. The Ori system is a compact module...