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Unleashing the potential of the mind
Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. MIT-Pison-Technologies-1024.jpg The MIT ... him back to MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate ... student Brandon Hopkins, and four others. MIT-Gravity-Flow_0.jpg A new concept for a flow battery ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ... MIT, says the speedier planning process will enable robots, particularly in industrial settings, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspHow to clean solar panels without water
a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ... side of the panel. The research is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterLiving sensors at your fingertips
Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsGoing for the gold
MIT-Shred-Optics-01-1024.jpg Ted Ligety wearing the helmet and goggle collection that Shred will be debuting at the Olympics. ... MIT students and faculty helped enhance the lens technology used in the lenses of these goggles. ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ... from concentrated, industrial sources. MIT-Co2Capture-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers uncovered how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ... spearheading the project, is a graduate student working with mechanical engineering professor Alex Slocum, the ... build it.” I_102223-AG-MIT-Motorcycle-0027.jpg Using an on-board logging computer, Electric Vehicle Team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenBreaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... at MIT. “Our big vision for this device and future iterations is to be able to take a process that ... Paulo Garcia, graduate student Zhifei Ge, and lecturer Jeffrey Moran, have published their results this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
nanometer sizes.” The team also included MIT graduate student Huifeng Du; Zhiguang Liu, Jiafang Li (project ... Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleA new way to make droplets bounce away
described in the journal ACS Nano in a paper by MIT graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, postdoc Dan Soto, ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayHow to make hydrogels more injectable
appears today in the journal Matter. Connor Verheyen, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Program in ... materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementClearing the air
graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and three one-month interns from the MIT Alumni Association’s Student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/clearing-airA graphene roll-out
University; MIT graduate students Dhanushkodi Mariappan and Nicholas Dee; Sui Zhang of the National University ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
in the journal Science by former MIT graduate student Brandon J. Hopkins ’18, W.M. Keck Professor of ... their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ... processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... are reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ... Kavanaugh Postdoctoral Fellow Haining Gao, graduate student Alejandro Sevilla, associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteries