We're excited to share our lineup of events and activities for FAB26 next week! The MIT Media Lab is proud to participate in this global gathering celebrating digital fabrication, distributed manufacturing, and the future of making.

Here's what you can look forward to:

On Stage & Panels — July 30th

Kent Larson will join Neil Gershenfeld and Tomas Diez on stage to talk about "The Science of Making Cities".

Also on the 30th, Yasushi Sakai will join the panel for the Fab City Awards Roundtable, exploring how cities around the world are embracing distributed production and sustainable innovation.

Exhibit in the E14 Lobby

Throughout the event, be sure to visit our exhibit in the E14 Lobby, where we'll be showcasing some of our latest work, including:

• The MIT Autonomous Bicycle. A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology that transforms from a rider-operated bicycle when the back tires come together, to an autonomous tricycle, when the back tires open via the employment of two linear actuators.
• The Personal Electric Vehicle (PEV). A low-cost, shared-used, lightweight vehicle designed for dense urban environments, enabling autonomous on-demand package delivery and passenger commutes.

These projects highlight our ongoing commitment to reimagining mobility and building the technologies that will shape how we move through our cities.

FAB26

FAB26 marks the 26th edition of the annual Fab Lab Conference, the flagship gathering of the global Fab Lab network. Returning to Boston, the event brings together makers, researchers, educators, and innovators from Fab Labs around the world to share the latest advances in digital fabrication and distributed manufacturing.

FAB26 traces its origins directly to the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at MIT. It was here, under the direction of Professor Neil Gershenfeld, that the very first Fab Lab was born—an outgrowth of CBA's pioneering research into digital fabrication and the idea that anyone should be able to make (almost) anything.