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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

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Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

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Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

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Looking to space to cure osteoarthritis

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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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Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis

Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

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Svetlana Boriskina

Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

Synthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength

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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

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

Looking to space to cure osteoarthritis

Giovanni Traverso

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans

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