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New gels could help the medicine go down
easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... collaborator on the work, which appears in Nature Communications. MIT postdocs William Whyte and Debkalpa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterTechnique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
a large scale, especially with single-cell resolution, but a team of MIT researchers has now found a way ... a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. MIT-CellDensity-01-press_1024x768.jpg The ... Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead author is MIT Research Scientist Weida (Richard) Wu. Measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-stateGiving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and ... enable a robot to manipulate smaller objects than was previously possible. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ... build it.” I_102223-AG-MIT-Motorcycle-0027.jpg Using an on-board logging computer, Electric Vehicle Team ... team, which has been part of MIT since 2005, this vehicle will not be entering races or competitions but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenCan an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?
lights and more than 100 origami robots that can crawl, swim, and blossom like flowers. A team from MIT ... and Shuhei Miyashita, and members of MIT Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab, including ... undergraduates Debra Ajilo and Negin Abdolrahim Poorheravi. mit-csail-robot-garden_0.jpg A robotic garden ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessibleResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... | MIT News Office yellow Collaboration International tomp@mit.edu Horizontal Researchers unravel secrets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesA Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... at MIT. “If we can make a knee that delivers similar performance to a $50,000 knee for a few hundred ... the National Science Foundation. Friday, July 31, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way. MIT-Quantum-Big-Data.JPG This ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ... and the National Science Foundation. Sunday, January 24, 2016 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... Nature Communications. MIT-Phonon-Scattering.jpg In their experiments, the team used precisely timed ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ... Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... bacteria remained alive for more than an hour afterward. MIT-Rain-Bacteria_1024.jpg A raindrop, splashing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsA new way to find better battery materials
storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say. MIT ... MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and institutions in Tokyo and Munich. Their findings were reported ... The team included Hao-Hsun Chang at MIT; Douglas Abernathy, Dipanshu Bansal, and Olivier Delaire at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsStepping on stage with Beyoncé
working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ... graduation that dance became a bigger part of Brown’s life. “I joined [MIT’s competitive hip hop team] ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals
environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered way of combating ... ice buildup. MIT-Solar-Deicing-1024.jpg Passive solar-powered system could prevent freezing on ... new system is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT associate professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-remove-ice-buildup-without-power-or-chemicalsResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... it would be expensive.” Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationGetting more heat out of sunlight
200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... and that therefore scattered the light much less. In tests on a rooftop on the MIT campus, a passive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
product and may require extra processing steps for their removal. Now, researchers at MIT have come up ... essential. MIT-Bubble-Capture-1024.jpg In a beaker with a constant stream of bubbles, inserting a piece of ... the new textured material developed by the MIT team (gray object extending into the surface at top) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... closing valves. MIT-SangbaeKim-A1-1024.jpg “Say there are toxic gases leaking in a building, and you need ... to fuse the two main projects in his lab: the MIT Cheetah, a four-legged, 70-pound robot that runs ...
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