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Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories

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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines

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MechE researchers offer a roadmap for the future of metamaterials.

Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

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Solving a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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January 27, 2026 Welcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus

Welcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus

January 20, 2026 Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry

Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry.

January 19, 2026 A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items

A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items.

January 13, 2026 Alum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift

Alum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift

January 7, 2026 2.009 mechanical engineering students embrace “cycles”

2.009 mechanical engineering students embrace “cycles”

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Six-time national yo-yo champion and rising senior Alex Hattori explores his passion for yo-yos at MIT.

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Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to build machines early in their academic careers at MIT.

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Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Associate Professor Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots.

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