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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Cities have long struggled with a fundamental blind spot in transport planning: understanding exactly where, when, and how vehicle emissions occur. Traditional emissions...
Americaβs electricity grid is entering a period of rapid change. Rising demand from electric vehicles, digital businesses, industrial electrification, and heating systems...
DMAT, a deep-tech innovator spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has successfully raised $4.5 million to fast-track the commercialisation of its g...
MIT researchers have unveiled a ground-breaking method for directly imaging material degradation in three dimensions, as it happens, within a nuclear reactor-like environ...
As climate change continues to wreak havoc globally, accurate and accessible tools to visualise and prepare for natural disasters have become indispensable. One ground-br...
In the fast-paced world of automotive engineering, car design is traditionally a meticulous and guarded process. Manufacturers invest years refining designs, conducting e...
Water contamination from synthetic chemicals is rapidly emerging as one of the most pressing environmental crises worldwide. A recent report from the U.S. Centers for Dis...
Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and itβs expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wear...
As container ships the size of city blocks cross the oceans to deliver cargo, their huge diesel engines emit large quantities of air pollutants. It has been estimated tha...
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt β a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs. MIT researchers have now desig...
In a world constantly seeking more efficient and sustainable industrial processes, a ground-breaking discovery has emerged from the laboratories of the Massachusetts Inst...
In the latest AgriTech innovation a team from MIT used machine learning to analyse satellite and roadside images of areas where small farms predominate and agricultural d...
Mass spectrometers, devices that identify chemical substances, are widely used in applications like crime scene analysis, toxicology testing, and geological surveying. Bu...
In the dynamic world of chemical reactions, understanding the fleeting moment of transition states β the ‘point of no return’ in a reaction β has long been a...
Personalized deep-learning models can enable artificial intelligence chatbots that adapt to understand a userβs accent or smart keyboards that continuously update to bett...
With 3D inkjet printing systems, engineers can fabricate hybrid structures that have soft and rigid components, like robotic grippers that are strong enough to grasp heav...
Researchers from MIT and NVIDIA have developed two techniques that accelerate the processing of sparse tensors, a type of data structure thatβs used for high-performance...
Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But scienceβs understanding of this ubiq...
The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promisi...
Deep generative models (DGMs) like ChatGPT are making waves with their remarkable ability to produce poetic lines, complete symphonies, and craft visuals based on vast vo...
In the future,Β quantum computersΒ may be able to solve problems that are far too complex for todayβs most powerful supercomputers. To realize this promise, quantum version...
The system could improve image quality in video streaming or help autonomous vehicles identify road hazards in real-time. An autonomous vehicle must rapidly and accuratel...
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first system for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit signals across kilometre-scale distance...
Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that could be used to control a robot, such as a drone or autonomous vehicle, mo...
Aviationβs huge carbon footprint could shrink significantly with electrification. To date, however, only small all-electric planes have gotten off the ground. Their elect...
As a car travels along a narrow city street, reflections off the glossy paint or side mirrors of parked vehicles can help the driver glimpse things that would otherwise b...
Scientists are striving to develop ever-smaller internet-of-things devices, like sensors tinier than a fingertip that could make nearly any object trackable. These diminu...
Materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a rigid, cage-like structure that lends itself to a variety of applications, from gas storage to drug delivery. By...
A process that seeks feedback from human specialists proves more effective at optimization than automated systems working alone. Modern fabrication tools such as 3D print...
Integrating sensors into rotational mechanisms could make it possible for engineers to build smart hinges that know when a door has been opened, or gears inside a motor t...
A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air. As carbon dioxide continues to...
Pushing a shovel through snow, planting an umbrella on the beach, wading through a ball pit, and driving over gravel all have one thing in common: They all are exercises...
A new study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special software, can collect useful structural integrity data while cros...
Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than...
Microcontrollers, miniature computers that can run simple commands, are the basis for billions of connected devices, from internet-of-things (IoT) devices to sensors in a...
Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of Earthβs oceans have never been observed, which means we have seen less of our planetβs ocean than we have the far side of...
Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the worldβs electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In fact, the va...
MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, which can sense how they are moving and interacting with the environ...
Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing, but figuring out how to print with these materia...
Finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward β we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a robot, this task...
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