Thirty-one Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduates spent four weeks this year designing, building and hot-firing small jet engines with AI as their primary design partner, in an experiment meant to answer a narrower question than "Can AI build things?": Can it hold up when the thing is safety-critical hardware, not code?

The result, released by MIT's Gas Turbine Laboratory in 2026, complicates the assumption that AI tools scale evenly from software to physical engineering.

What was JARVIS's challenge?

The JARVIS Challenge, standing for Jet-engine AI Research and Validation Intensive Sprint, took place at........

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