CBA News & Notes
October 4, 2026
- On October 9 CBA is co-hosting a talk by xTool at the MIT Museum on rapid-prototyping beyond 3D printing:
followed by a workshop at the Kendall fab hub:
- July 27-31 CBA co-hosted 1024 people from 56 countries for FAB26 at and around MIT:
Highlights included the opening remarks by MIT's President Sally Kornbluth:
and the opening of the Kendall fab hub:
with a collection of our favorite tools:
Alfonso Parra Rubio and Erik Strand led an installation of large-scale rapid-prototyping at Boston's Public Library:
The work of Neil Gershenfeld was celebrated:
And there was an unusual pick-up band:
- CBA is hosting Chris Bathgate as a visiting artist:
He's pushing the limits of machining as a tool for creative expression:
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Amira Abdel-Rahman wrote about the impact of CBA's research on self-replicating robots:
for a feature by Nature on the impact of engineering research:
- General Flash is the latest CBA start-up, led by Ric Fulop, to commercialize the application of solid-state plasmas to refine critical minerals:
- CBA patents issued on circuits and methods for asynchronous adiabatic quantum flux parametron system design:
on the fabrication of three-dimensional kirigami structures with tunable properties:
and on a method of manufacture of a resin:
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