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Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are members of the 2023-25 Committed to Caring cohort

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Engineering and matters of the heart

Engineering and matters of the heart

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LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed balance in manufacturing.

LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed balance in manufacturing.

Christening the “Chrys Chryssostomidis”

Christening the “Chrys Chryssostomidis”

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26

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

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August 10, 2025 Faculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock

Faculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock

August 4, 2025 How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations

How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations

July 27, 2025 Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

July 27, 2025 Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

July 23, 2025 Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

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Designing Toys

Designing Toys

In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and product design experience while developing a prototype for a new toy.

MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

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.

Next Generation Electronics

Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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