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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials DevFeed: [MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Zach Winn | MIT News Published: 2026-09-14T04:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [systems]() Tags: [3-d-printing](), [ai](), [aj-perez](), [alumni-ae](), [artificial-intelligence](), [atlas-composites](), [cleaner-industry](), [engineering](), [homes](), [housing](), [manufacturing](), [materials-science-and-engineering](), [matt-pouliot](), [mechanical-engineering](), [platform](), [pollution](), [production](), [recycled-plastic-building-materials](), [robotics](), [school-of-engineering](), [startups](), [sustainability](), [u-s-army](), [water]() ### AI overview MIT spinout Atlas Building Composites is commercializing an AI-powered robotic manufacturing platform that recycles single-use and low-grade plastic into durable building components. Its waterless process has been used for structures including a bridge supplied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. ### Source excerpt Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure. ## Tiny robot boats build floating structures DevFeed: [Tiny robot boats build floating structures]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL Published: 2026-07-09T15:50:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Robotics](), [Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)](), [Computer science]() Tags: [alejandro-gonzalez-garcia](), [aquatic-robots](), [architecture](), [artificial-intelligence](), [autonomous-vehicles](), [bioinspiration](), [cities](), [computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [daniela-rus](), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](), [fire-ants](), [floatform](), [floating-infrastructure](), [hybrid-coordination](), [infrastructure](), [machine-learning](), [mit-csail](), [mit-eecs](), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](), [mit-sea-grant](), [mit-sea-grant-program](), [mit-senseable-city-lab](), [modular-robotic-boats](), [modular-self-reconfigurable-robots](), [niklas-hagemann](), [nonlinear-hydrodynamics](), [raft](), [research](), [robot-boats](), [robot-self-assembly](), [robotics](), [robots](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [school-of-engineering](), [science](), [self-reconfiguration](), [senseable-city-lab](), [snap](), [swarm](), [swarm-robots](), [tiny](), [transportation](), [ultrasonic-beacon-system](), [urban-studies-and-planning](), [water](), [wei-wang]() ### AI overview MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small robotic boats that can assemble into reconfigurable structures on the water and later break apart and reassemble into new configurations with minimal human direction. ### Source excerpt MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water. ## Startup's nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable DevFeed: [Startup's nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Zach Winn | MIT News Published: 2026-06-10T04:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [data centers](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [cloud-infrastructure](), [Computer science]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-data-centers](), [artificial-intelligence](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [cooling](), [data-center-cooling](), [data-center-sustainability](), [data-centers](), [efficiency](), [energy](), [energy-efficiency](), [energy-storage](), [ferveret](), [matteo-bucci](), [nuclear-science-and-engineering](), [power](), [reza-azizian](), [school-of-engineering](), [startups](), [sustainability](), [sustainable-computing](), [technology-and-society](), [water]() ### AI overview Ferveret, a startup founded by two MIT researchers, is adapting nuclear-reactor heat-transfer methods to cool AI data-center servers with a specialized liquid. Its Adaptive Phase Cooling system uses small, frequently detaching bubbles to improve heat transfer without water and with less electricity. ### Source excerpt Founded by two researchers from MIT, Ferveret reduces the amount of energy and water required to cool the chips that power AI. ## An Opinionated Critique of AI's Environmental, Social, and Infrastructure Impacts DevFeed: [An Opinionated Critique of AI's Environmental, Social, and Infrastructure Impacts]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2026-05-05T15:09:12Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [Code](), [large-language-models](), [data centers](), [data]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-data-centers](), [climate](), [co2](), [code](), [data-centers](), [education](), [energy](), [hiring](), [language-models](), [large-language-models](), [water]() ### AI overview This opinion article argues that society is being asked to accept damaging conditions as normal, focusing on climate change, AI data centers' resource use, geopolitical crises, and dependence on US cloud infrastructure. It is especially critical of AI's effects on hiring and education, and of deploying unproven large language model output in production services. ### Source excerpt "Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol by John Tenniel To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.