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A tiny ingestible sensor can measure temperature from inside the body

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MIT engineers find a way to deliver drugs directly to the esophagus

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Graduate students Shreya Agarwal ’24 and Malia Smith ’24 bring 2.009 prototype to market

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Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Associate Professor Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots.

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Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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