MIT DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Inflatable Robotic Hand

The smart hand, developed by Professor Xuanhe Zhao, enables a wide range of daily activities and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics.

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If you design in a box, whether it’s for someone in the US or someone in India, your solution isn’t going to be right.

- PhD candidate Natasha Wright (SM ’14), Vice President of GAME

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Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42

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Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

While House announces funding partnership to support research on ocean renewable energy

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Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices

PHOTO GALLERY: 2019 Build Challenge

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MIT J-WAFS awards three grants to MechE researchers

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Inflatable Robotic Hand

Beyond the Classroom

Explore our Global Impact

Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42

Water is Life

See the impact of our research

John Brisson

Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

While House announces funding partnership to support research on ocean renewable energy

Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices

PHOTO GALLERY: 2019 Build Challenge

Explore Research Areaenergy

MIT J-WAFS awards three grants to MechE researchers

Gang Chen

Faez Ahmed

Saving MIT's radar dome or "radome"

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

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