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**CBA News & Notes**

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December 8, 2025

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- The annual *How To Make (almost) Anything* open house will be 5:00-6:30 Monday December 15 on the 6th floor of MIT's building E14:\
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  <https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.25>

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  - CBA has received an award to use novel solid-state plasmas to refine critical minerals:\
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    <https://climateproject.mit.edu/news/building-resilient-critical-minerals-supply-chains-propel-technological-innovation>

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    - A CBA team contributed to a study that showed how hull modifications can cut fuel use in shipping by up to 7.5 percent, leading to a significant impact on emissions and cost:\
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      <https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-1202>

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      and contributed to a study on insights from benchmarking neural nucleic acid design algorithms that was presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning:\
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      <https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/51328>

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      - A project led by Alexander Htet Kyaw connected natural language processing, 3D generative AI, and robotic assembly:\
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        <https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-researchers-speak-objects-existence-using-ai-robotics-1205>

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        He presented it at the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication hosted at MIT, which also included contributions led by Miana Smith on scalable macroscale assembly:\
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        <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3745778.3766665>

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        by Ilan Moyer on interactive fabrication, and with Amira Abdel-Rahman on augmenting AI with simulation:\
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        <https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3745778>

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        - Cedric Honnet presented a project that miniaturized circuits to fit into fibers at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology:\
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          <https://doi.org/10.1145/3746059.3747802>

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          - Neil Gershenfeld did the keynote for MIT's Data Center Day:\
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            <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Sb4WXszto&t=1s>

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            and hosted a roundtable on interspecies data collection:\
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            <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCAkI-KqeQ>

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            - Alfonso Parra Rubio hosted a workshop with the global leaders of algorithms for folding:\
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              <https://aprubio.com/2025/12/05/aag25-structural-origami-workshop>

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              - Congrats to alum Sophia Wang on being selected as a Rhodes Scholar:\
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                <https://news.mit.edu/2025/four-mit-named-2026-rhodes-scholars-1115>

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                and to alum Sam Calisch on his start-up that's driving electrification by introducing appliance batteries:\
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                <https://news.mit.edu/2025/battery-powered-appliances-make-switch-easy-gas-electric-1030>

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                - The newest additions to our digital fabrication facility are an xTool UV laser:\
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                  <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#xTool_F2_UV>

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                  an upgraded CO2 laser:\
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                  <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#xTool_P3>

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                  a high-temperature Prusa 3D printer:\
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                  <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Prusa_HT90>

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                  and another Carvera tool-changing desktop mill:\
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                  <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Carvera>

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                  - We offer our best wishes for the upcoming holiday season and new year

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