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Discover both undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering classes at MIT on our updated Class Offerings page.
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Sports Tech Assistance
The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls at the last World Cup, but their ongoing work with FIFA is just one of many collaborations with heavy hitters in sports.
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Stroke Rehabilitation Powered by AI
Noah Geiger (left) and Johannes Lachner developed a robotic therapy system that learns from physical therapists to adaptively support stroke patients.
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Building Hardcore Machines
In class 2.72/2.270 (Elements of Mechanical Design), “if it doesn’t break the laws of physics, it's possible… you just have to figure out how to engineer it.”
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A Robot that Flies and Swims
Mechanical engineers designed a robot that can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying in air. Diving birds manage this feat. “So we knew it was possible. Just no one had tried this in a mobile robotic system,” Raphael Zufferey says.
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Recyclable Elastic Yarn
Svetlana Boriskina and her colleagues have published details of a new recyclable yarn that is as strong and stretchy as spandex-based ones.
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