# MIT.nano hosts NEMO meeting on open-source research facility management and Hydra discovery tool

> Original title: Building connections across the research infrastructure

- Source: MIT News · AI
- Published: 2026-11-03T19:30:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/p6qbc8xbbxjpji8z4h4vfgzqs
- Original: https://news.mit.edu/2026/building-connections-across-research-infrastructure-1103

## Summary

MIT.nano hosted the 2026 NEMO User Meeting on Oct. 5–6, bringing together 65 representatives from 25 laboratories and organizations to share facility management approaches. The meeting centered on NEMO, an open-source platform NIST released in 2018, and introduced Hydra, an open-source tool that connects NEMO installations to help researchers find specialized capabilities across facilities. Hydra does not replace existing lab management systems, instead syncing data from them in real time.