News + Video | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

close menu

MechE Covid-19 Resources

MIT MechE News + Video

News
Videos
Photos

See our innovations + inventions in the world

Explore the Impact of MIT MechE

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

Six-time national yo-yo champion and rising senior Alex Hattori explores his passion for yo-yos at MIT.

Play

Current Time 0:00

/

Duration Time 1:39

Remaining Time -1:39

Stream TypeLIVE

Loaded: 0%

Progress: 0%

0:00

Fullscreen

00:00

Mute

Watch

Six-time national yo-yo champion and rising senior Alex Hattori explores his passion for yo-yos at MIT.

Just Watched Six-time national yo-yo champion and rising senior Alex Hattori explores his passion for yo-yos at MIT.

Watch More Videos

Ming Guo

Associate Professor

View Full Profile

Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping.

Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping.

Isabella Yeung (Course 12, ’26), and Adouyn Byrne (Course 2, ’27) hold the UAV they constructed in MIT’s Course 2.S01.

Isabella Yeung (Course 12, ’26), and Adouyn Byrne (Course 2, ’27) hold the UAV they constructed in MIT’s Course 2.S01.

Rohit Karnik is the new director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab.

Data-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays

Data-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays

Student Awards Luncheon 2022

Student Awards Luncheon 2022

Explore Research Areamechanics

Engineering Better Sleep During Menopause

Engineering Better Sleep During Menopause

Raphael Zufferey

Assistant Professor

View Full Profile

Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

View Full Profile

Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

Explore Research Areaocean

Explore Research Areacontrols

Major News Announcements from MechE

News + Announcements

August 10, 2025 Faculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock

Faculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock

August 4, 2025 How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations

How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations

July 27, 2025 Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

July 27, 2025 Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

July 23, 2025 Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

View all Announcements from the Wire

Explore Our Videos

Next Generation Electronics

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.

Bio-Inspired Robotics

Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

Using machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members of MIT's MCube lab, have developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. The technology could be used in robots for manufacturing assembly lines.

See All Videos

Explore Our Photo Galleries

Show More