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Digger Training Interface
The new, more intuitive system could speed up the training process for excavator operators.
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Plastic Waste into Building Materials
Atlas Building Composites, a MechE spinout, uses waterless plastic recycling and large-scale composite additive manufacturing to make parts such as home foundations, decks, and trusses for walls, floors, and roofs.
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Muscle-Powered Aquabot
A new paper-thin swimming robot can flap through water in response to flashes of light.
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Teaching FUNdaMENTALs
Precision, repeatability, and fun are the focus in MechE course 2.70 (Fundamentals of Precision Product Design) taught by Alex Slocum, the Walter M. and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
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Explore MechE Classes
Discover both undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering classes at MIT on our updated Class Offerings page.
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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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