Through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, the US Department of Defense supports research projects in areas of critical importance to national defense.

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

The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery.

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

Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold.

The device, which uses electricity to boost hormone production in the stomach, could help to ease nausea and counteract appetite loss.

Ming Guo seeks connections between a cell’s physical form and its biological function, which could illuminate ways to halt abnormal cell growth.

A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer.

MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor.