Fabricaide, developed at MIT CSAIL, provides live design feedback to help users reduce leftover material.

Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.

MorphSensor lets users digitally model an object’s form and electronic function in one integrated space.

Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.

In place of flat “breadboards,” 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.

Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new model can help.

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked.

New structural design could lead to self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.