CBA News & Notes
December 8, 2025
- The annual How To Make (almost) Anything open house will be 5:00-6:30 Monday December 15 on the 6th floor of MIT's building E14:
- CBA has received an award to use novel solid-state plasmas to refine critical minerals:
- A CBA team contributed to a study that showed how hull modifications can cut fuel use in shipping by up to 7.5 percent, leading to a significant impact on emissions and cost:
and contributed to a study on insights from benchmarking neural nucleic acid design algorithms that was presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning:
- A project led by Alexander Htet Kyaw connected natural language processing, 3D generative AI, and robotic assembly:
He presented it at the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication hosted at MIT, which also included contributions led by Miana Smith on scalable macroscale assembly:
by Ilan Moyer on interactive fabrication, and with Amira Abdel-Rahman on augmenting AI with simulation:
- Cedric Honnet presented a project that miniaturized circuits to fit into fibers at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology:
- Neil Gershenfeld did the keynote for MIT's Data Center Day:
and hosted a roundtable on interspecies data collection:
- Alfonso Parra Rubio hosted a workshop with the global leaders of algorithms for folding:
- Congrats to alum Sophia Wang on being selected as a Rhodes Scholar:
and to alum Sam Calisch on his start-up that's driving electrification by introducing appliance batteries:
- The newest additions to our digital fabrication facility are an xTool UV laser:
an upgraded CO2 laser:
a high-temperature Prusa 3D printer:
and another Carvera tool-changing desktop mill:
- We offer our best wishes for the upcoming holiday season and new year
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