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Underwater Robot for Port Security
contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... routing of maritime traffic.” The MIT research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Friday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Hyunwoo Yuk, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a paper on the work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterA new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ... Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... technologies that can scale.” The research team included others at MIT, Stockholm University in Sweden, SLAC ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-inexpensive-catalyst-speeds-production-oxygen-waterLeading business past dollars and cents
graduated from MIT, Flores was determined to continue her plan with the doors opened by her mechanical ... aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ... Copy of Copy of 3.jpg At a recent panel discussion hosted by the MIT Leaders for Global Operations, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leading-business-past-dollars-and-centsHeather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42
Heather Theberge, an administrative assistant in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s ... and department head. Theberge joined MIT in 2012. In her role as administrative assistant, she was ... program. Heather_Theberge_1024.jpg Heather Theberge joined MIT in 2012. In her role as administrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/heather-theberge-mechanical-engineering-staff-member-dies-42A simpler method for learning to control a robot
Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ... 1024Azizan.jpg Researchers from MIT and Stanford University created a machine-learning method that can derive ... despite being buffeted by strong winds. Image: MIT News, with figures from iStock “The focus of our work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotHow to Hide Like an Octopus
Craig. Zhao, who joined the MIT faculty from Duke this month and holds a joint appointment with the ... changing at the flip of a switch,” says Qiming Wang, an MIT postdoc and the first author of the paper. “We ... the National Science Foundation. Tuesday, September 16, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... Mechanical Engineering, who originated MIT’s robotics competition (then called 2.70) and ran it for many ... years. Friday, May 9, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office blue Culture Education Maker ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red Education Maker DRWALLAC@MIT.EDU Horizontal The theme for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-ahead3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes. The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... FireSense. The yellow team simulated a search and rescue team’s efforts on MIT’s campus, providing a live ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersStudents demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition
competition has become a seminal event in MIT’s academic calendar. Spearheaded by Professor Emeritus Woodie ... members of the MIT community cheered as the 32 students were whittled down to the final two: Erika Mynio ... omnidirectional wheels to navigate the gameboard’s tight spaces. As a member of MIT’s Combat Robotics Club, Massie ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-demonstrate-calculated-imagination-robot-competitionHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... are limited to specific materials. Instead, the MIT team focused on making the fewest changes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetRacing into the future of autonomous driving
students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ... benefits of driverless cars, as well as offering teams like MIT Driverless an opportunity to tackle the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... MIT home at one point or another. “The ideas that we work on in the lab, you’ll see turned into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveA New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water
nature of the electronic structure in cobalt and oxygen,” MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Xi ... researchers at MIT, the Skoltech Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin show in a new ... contains precious metals. Through collaboration with MIT theorists, the team unraveled how the reaction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mechanism-catalyzing-splitting-waterHow to float your coffee creamer
able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... what if the two liquids didn’t mix? MIT scientists have now explained why under certain conditions ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerInvisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
counterparts,” says MIT CSAIL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Mustafa ... could lead you to dangerous links and viruses. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and ... BrightMarker is just the beginning,” says MIT CSAIL visiting researcher Raúl García-Martín, who is doing his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/invisible-tagging-system-enhances-3d-object-trackingEngineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ... a sidewinding rollercoaster — a flight pattern known as dynamic soaring. Albatross_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... Now engineers at MIT have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to ...
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