A study inspired by the Japanese paper-cutting art provides a blueprint for designing shape-shifting materials and devices.

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

A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.

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

Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.

The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in America’s advanced computing lead spans many areas.

An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.

Techniques from metal additive manufacturing offer a new way to help combat counterfeit goods, such as national defense assets.

A new algorithm for automatic assembly of products is accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.