Computer vision enables contact-free 3D printing, letting engineers print with high-performance materials they couldn’t use before.

StructCode, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, encodes machine-readable data in laser-cut objects by modifying their fabrication features.

With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality.

Developed by MIT researchers, BrightMarkers are invisible fluorescent tags embedded in physical objects to enhance motion tracking, virtual reality, and object detection.

With a new, user-friendly interface, researchers can quickly design many cellular metamaterial structures that have unique mechanical properties.

A new computational method facilitates the dense placement of objects inside a rigid container.

A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants.

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

The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.

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