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Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel

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Two MechE faculty members and several alumni received Presidential Early Career Awards.

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MIT researchers developed a new memory model that may explain the brain’s vast storage capacity

By attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead

Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

Photo Gallery: The Eric P. & Evelyn E. Newman Lab Open House

The Eric P and Evelyn E Newman Laboratory provides a new home for robotics and biomechanics research in MechE.

FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

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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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December 15, 2025 “Robot, make me a chair”

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools...

December 14, 2025 Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

December 14, 2025 MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

December 11, 2025 New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age

New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age

December 9, 2025 Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

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MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

Using machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members of MIT's MCube lab, have developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. The technology could be used in robots for manufacturing assembly lines.

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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

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