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A student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer.

Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

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A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

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

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

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