ENGINEERING – Cambridge Science Festival

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Design, Fashion & Technology at MIT

10:00 AM

MIT Museum: Lobby

On display at the MIT Museum Lee Family Exchange Space will be a series of fashion and textile works from MIT’s Self Assembly Lab and student works from Intelligent Skin, a studio taught in collaboration with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan.

WPI / Jabil Heathcare and Mass Academy FIRST Team 190

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Robot Petting Zoo

The WPI / Jabil Heathcare and Mass Academy FIRST team will be demonstrating their 2022 FIRST Robotics Competition robot, the Goat-A-Roo. Learn about the FIRST program, watch our 120 lb. robot drive and launch balls into the air, and have a chance to operate it yourself!

MIT SEVT Nimbus Display

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone

The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team designs, builds, and races solar powered vehicles. The team presents its most recently built car, Nimbus, which raced and won both the 2021 and 2022 American Solar Challenge.

Norwalk Havoc Robot League (NHRL)

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Robot Petting Zoo

The largest & most accessible combat robotics league in the world.

Unwanted Project: Creative Upcycling for Fashion and More

12:30 PM

MIT Museum: The Heide Education Suite

How might we reimagine the material world with hands-on creation and upcycling the creative process? Through this workshop, participants will experience designing and creating functional objects including light, bags and accessories with PVC pipe, which is a normal urban disposal and construction material.

Arcturus Autonomous Boat Showcase

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Robot Petting Zoo

Come check out the autonomous boat that Arcturus, MIT’s autonomous robotics team, built for RoboBoat 2022. Learn about how we built and programmed our boat to complete competition tasks!

MIT Sea Grant: A Tour of Lab Facilities with Robots, Test Tanks, and More

03:00 PM

MIT Sea Grant

Come and see robot boats, submarines and a variety of other ocean engineering projects!

How to Train Your Robot

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Robot Petting Zoo

Come explore robots + artificial intelligence with the Personal Robots Group from the MIT Media Lab! We will demo our social robot Jibo and share interactive activities to learn about AI.

American Trucking Associations’ Interstate One: A virtual driving experience

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone

Have you wondered what it’s like to get in an 18 wheeler and drive it? Thanks to the MIT FreightLab, The American Trucking Associations, and US Xpress, the ATA Interstate One Simulator will let your imagination hit the open road without having to get your CDL!