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Xuanhe Zhao fabricates transparent, gel-based robots that can catch and release live fish.

Xuanhe Zhao fabricates transparent, gel-based robots that can catch and release live fish.

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John Hart

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Senior Matthew Cavuto will use his Marshall Scholarship to work on devices that enhance mobility for the disabled.

Senior Matthew Cavuto will use his Marshall Scholarship to work on devices that enhance mobility for the disabled.

Microfluidic technique that isolates plasma cells from blood may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies.

Microfluidic technique that isolates plasma cells from blood may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies.

Team led by Ming Guo has found that organelles encounter varying levels of resistance in a cell's cytoplasm

Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter honored with 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards

Tapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off

Tapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off

Cullen Buie

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Klaus-Jürgen Bathe

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Mathias Kolle devises tiny “microlenses” made from complex liquid droplets the size of a human hair.

Mathias Kolle devises tiny “microlenses” made from complex liquid droplets the size of a human hair.

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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