Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems are fleets of lightweight electric vehicles at strategically distributed electrical charging stations thro…
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – …
Design and modeling processes in architecture and the automotive industry have evolved along completely separate paths. This research proje…
The Zero Car is a testing platform and chassis for the Wheel Robots project. Zero Car is a customizable and modular platform that houses th…
Virtual Towing allows a city to rapidly collect and redistribute vehicles, by enabling a single driver to tow multiple vehicles without mec…
Working with Juan Alberto Belloch, the mayor of Zaragoza, Spain, MIT developed a programmable water wall composed of digitally controlled s…
The Smart Cities and Cognitive Machines groups have teamed up with the Center for Future Banking to design a concept banking store in the B…
Flossing is the phenomenon of drivers travelling back and forth on a designated route to show off their vehicles. The Flosser is a software…
Creating smart 3-D models in the CATIA environment allows designers and engineers to explore and test the feasible envelopes in component-a…
An understanding of the historical development of the car is critical to a "reinvention" of the car. This research project tracks the diffe…
The city of the future will provide a high degree of connectivity to its inhabitants. Targeting the fast-paced urban traffic environment, t…