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. Read More
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! Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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! Read More
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! Read More
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. Read More
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! Read More