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Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics

In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.

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Counter intelligence

Architecture students bring new forms of human-machine interaction into the kitchen.

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Using design to interpret the past and envision the future

MIT graduate student C Jacob Payne reimagines historic architecture and invents new possibilities at the intersection of AI and design.

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“Robot, make me a chair”

An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.

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MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics

The speech-to-reality system combines 3D generative AI and robotic assembly to create objects on demand.

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School of Architecture and Planning welcomes new faculty for 2025

Four new professors join the Department of Architecture and MIT Media Lab.

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School of Architecture and Planning recognizes faculty with academic promotions in 2025

The faculty members’ work comprises multifaceted research and scholarship across a wide range of disciplines.

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Merging design and computer science in creative ways

MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.

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MIT students’ works redefine human-AI collaboration

Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.