Scientists have taken a step closer to replicating nature's processes of self-assembly. The study describes the synthetic construction of a tiny, self-assembled crystal known as a 'pyrochlore,' which ...

Ministry of Supply partnered with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab to create a 4D-knitted dress. The wild future of 4D design A manufacturing technique from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab that is poised to disrupt ...

Harvard and MIT engineers, showing a reckless disregard for the robocalypse, have created origami robots that can self-assemble themselves -- from a flat piece of paper and polystyrene -- and walk ...