News & Updates

3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots

VulcanForms, an MIT startup, has developed a 3-D printer that can “generate 100 times the laser energy of most 3-D printers, and can produce parts many times faster,” reports Steve Lohr for The New York Times. “Additive manufacturing lets us rethink how we build things,” explains Martin Feldmann MEng ’14, co-founder, president and CEO of VulcanForms. “That’s where we are now, and that’s a big change.”

Robotic lightning bugs take flight

Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.

BUILD.nano: Ultra small-scale engineering with city-scale impact

To consider the impacts of nanoscience on the built environment, MIT faculty, students, and researchers gathered with startup leaders and industry partners at BUILD.nano, a daylong conference co-sponsored by MIT.nano, the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), and the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) that focused on making our cities more sustainable, more efficient, smarter, and healthier.

Read the recap.

Stronger security for smart devices

Researchers demonstrate two security methods that efficiently protect analog-to-digital converters from powerful attacks that aim to steal user data.