For nearly 150 years, construction materials testing has been a manual effort. Whether in an engineering lab, a commercial lab, at cement/ready-mix manufacturers’ sites or in the field, specimens are ...

The last decade has seen a massive shift toward automated testing practices, which wiped out the manual handling of a lot of rote tasks. But the pervasiveness of this change has been so quick that ...

MIT researchers have developed a self-supervised robotic system that dramatically accelerates contact-based material characterization by autonomously guiding a probe to perform over 125 precise ...