They work with many partners and sponsors. Car companies, airplane companies, architects, construction industry clients and many more are interested or involved in projects and consultation. There are ...

Skylar Tibbits has some radical ideas about the future of manufacturing. “If you look at how things are manufactured at every other scale other than the human scale–look at DNA and cells and proteins, ...

For Liquid to Air, the team printed table lamps, pendants, and sconces from silicone rubber and inflated them into round, buoyant fixtures with a malleable finish. Walking through Patrick Parrish ...

MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is experimenting with ‘4D’ methods of ‘programming’ materials to self-construct. In this experiment, researchers outfit phone parts with magnets of varying polarity and put ...

MIT's Self Assembly Lab has been developing new approaches to furniture manufacturing using new forms of high-speed 3D printing, working with Autodesk, Steelcase and other partners. Wood-Skin, a ...