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About the Lab

Hi everyone, thanks for your interest in the Matter Assembly Computation Lab! Our research in the MACLab is motivated by the observation that designing robots, and electromechanical systems, is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a great deal of experience. Practitioners need to be skilled in mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering. Instead, what if making a robot could be as easy as specifying the behaviors or capabilities you want, asking software tools to design the robot, and then printing the robot? This is the overall inspiration for what we’re trying to do in the MACLab.

In support of this general goal we work in several research subareas:

  • Design automation for multimaterial fabrication

  • Multimaterial simulation

  • Fabrication automation (which involves making new 3D printers and control software)

  • 3D-printable material development and testing.

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News

9/28/17

Our paper on automatically designing and fabricating robots by folding was a finalist for the JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award at IROS 2017.

7/17/17

Professor MacCurdy was on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell. Check out the video.

7/10/17

Professor MacCurdy is going to CU Boulder!! He'll be starting as an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at CU Boulder this January, 2018. He's looking for students, so write to him if you're interested in working with him.

6/17/17

Professor MacCurdy's paper on automatically designing and fabricating robots by folding was published in IEEE RA-L and will also be presented at IROS2017 in Vancouver. Also watch the accompanying video.

5/24/17

Professor MacCurdy gave a talk at the LiveWorx conference in Boston.

11/21/16

The Boston ABC channel WCVB broadcast a video piece about my Printable Viscoelastics work.

11/15/16

The Printed Programmable Viscoelastics Youtube video now has more than 50,000 views!

11/8/16

Professor MacCurdy has been awarded another patent! US 9,487,387: System and methods for actuation using electro-osmosis

10/4/16

The Printed Programmable Viscoelastics work is featured on MIT's frontpage!

8/1/16

The Printed Hydraulics Youtube video now has more than 250,000 views!

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