Noah Geiger (left) and Johannes Lachner developed a robotic therapy system that learns from physical therapists to adaptively support stroke patients.
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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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.
In the Spring 2026 issue of MechE Connects, our departmental magazine, we explore MechE-born entrepreneurship and the companies launched by MechE alumni.
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.”