MIT is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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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.
As electronic, thermoelectric and computer technologies have been miniaturized to nanometre scale, engineers have faced a challenge studying fundamental properties of the...
No one likes sitting at a red light. But signalized intersections arenβt just a minor nuisance for drivers; vehicles consume fuel and emit greenhouse gases while waiting...
MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase...
If a robot is going to navigate a vehicle safely through downtown Boston, it must be able to predict what nearby drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians are going to do next....
Identifying a malfunction in the nationβs power grid can be like trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. Hundreds of thousands of interrelated sensors spread acr...
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells. A single wood cell wall is constructed from fibres o...
Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactur...
Neural networks are sometimes called black boxes because, despite the fact that they can outperform humans on certain tasks, even the researchers who design them often do...
New processing methods developed by MIT researchers could help ease looming shortages of the essential metals that power everything from phones to automotive batteries, b...
In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted to try to improve performance, incl...
Buildings are a big contributor to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction. Truss structures β those crisscro...
Marsh plants, which are ubiquitous along the worldβs shorelines, can play a major role in mitigating the damage to coastlines as sea levels rise and storm surges increase...
Neural networksΒ can learn to solve all sorts of problems, from identifying cats in photographs to steering a self-driving car. But whether these powerful, pattern-recogni...
A busy commuter is ready to walk out the door, only to realize theyβve misplaced their keys and must search through piles of stuff to find them. Rapidly sifting through c...
If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly f...
If the Earthβs oceans were drained completely, they would reveal a massive chain of undersea volcanoes snaking around the planet. This sprawling ocean ridge system is a p...
The concrete world that surrounds us owes its shape and durability to chemical reactions that start when ordinary Portland cement is mixed with water. Now, MIT scientists...
MIT researchers have created the first fibre with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyse, and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt. Yoel Fink, who is...
Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects β as long as theyβre out in the open, but discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a...
When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of βbitsβ to represent and e...
Ferrovial has renewed its collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a further five years. The collaboration with the prestigious academic ins...
A key portion of MITβs campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in East Cambridge where students, residents, and tech employees scurry around in between cla...
In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. βResearchers have been giving robots human-like perception,β says MIT Associate Professor Fa...
Using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen can be an effective way to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, with further benefits if that electricity is gen...
The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen dramatically over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of...
In a perfect world, what you see is what you get. If this were the case, the job of artificial intelligence systems would be refreshingly straightforward. Take collision...
What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If youβre mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the harder problem. In...
Graphs β data structures that show the relationship among objects β are highly versatile. Itβs easy to imagine a graph depicting a social media networkβs web of connectio...
Light-emitting diodes, LEDs, can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can use an L...
Advanced metal alloys are essential in key parts of modern life, from cars to satellites, from construction materials to electronics. But creating new alloys for specific...
In the early decades of the 20th century, city officials in the U.S. began collecting data like they never had before. In St. Louis, starting around 1915, planners fanned...
New system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface. The advance could aid fine art reproduction and the design of prosthetics. Those are an...
Jonathan Frankle is researching artificial intelligence using the same philosophy that applies to his βlottery ticket hypothesis.β It posits that, hidden within massive n...
So, you need a robot that traverse a construction site – what shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an ant? Choosing the...
Increasingly, artificial intelligence systems known as deep learning neural networks are used to inform decisions vital to human health and safety, such as in autonomous...
Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check...
Long known as the hardest of all natural materials, diamonds are also exceptional thermal conductors and electrical insulators. Now, researchers have discovered a way to...
To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses β ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort...
On the ground, windy conditions strengthen these electrical flashes, but new experiments tell a different story for flying objects. At the height of a thunderstorm, the t...
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. The brief is part of a series of subject-speci...
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