CBA News & Notes
August 3, 2016
- CBA is co-hosting FAB12 in Shenzhen from August 8-14, with hands-on workshops, a research Symposium, and public festival:
- A CBA team has been selected by NASA for microgravity testing of robotic assemblers:
- We're pleased to welcome Toyota as CBA's newest sponsor, with a focus on advanced manufacturing:
- Neil Gershenfeld featured CBA research in bonus material:
for the movie The Martian:
and in a longer conversation:
and will be doing a keynote for IEEE on rebooting computing:
- Sherry Lassiter and Nadya Peek spoke at a White House Maker to Manufacturer event:
and CBA participated in the Capitol Hill Maker Faire:
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=220739
- Congratulations to Renee Fredericks from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council fab lab, Bert Crenca from the AS220 fab lab, and Sonya Pryor-Jones from the Fab Foundation for being recognized as Champions of Change by the White House:
to the Haystack fab lab for receiving an award from the James Renwick Alliance:
and to Charles Fracchia for being recognized as one of Technology Review's Innovators Under 35:
- The International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has launched a Global Humanitarian Lab based on CBA's fab lab network:
http://blogs.icrc.org/gphi2/2016/05/24/fab-lab-humanity-born-global-humanitarian-lab
- Fab labs were in the news in Rwanda, where a CBA team deployed a lab:
during the World Economic Forum on Africa:
and in stories from Egypt:
and a BBC report from MIT and Mexico:
"Des fablabs" has even made it into a French dictionary:
This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of CBA and its partners; to be added or removed from this list, or to submit items, please contact cba_news@cba.mit.edu - Congratulations to Renee Fredericks from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council fab lab, Bert Crenca from the AS220 fab lab, and Sonya Pryor-Jones from the Fab Foundation for being recognized as Champions of Change by the White House: