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A flexible way to grab items with feeling

Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu — a mechanical engineering PhD ... Conference on Soft Robotics. Courtesy of MIT CSAIL The fin ray has become a popular item in soft robotics ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Researchers, including Professor Russ Tedrake, ... billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ...

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Beyond low-hanging fruit

Industrial Liaison Program green slocum@mit.edu ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision, he says, ...

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Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone

Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office ... hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ...

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New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide

Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ... A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He. ...

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Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans

WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ...

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RAS Proposal Submission Timeline

Timelines Mechanical Engineering has established the following internal deadlines  to have ...

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Pills of the future: nanoparticles

Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Anne Trafton, MIT News Office green ... far. Now, researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a new type of ... Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...

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MIT Hyperloop

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  MIT Hyperloop Teaser Text:  MIT students head to the SpaceX ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT students head to the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition with ... a concept pod, and a vision for the future of transportation. The MIT Hyperloop Team will be firing their ...

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Separating finely mixed oil and water

further test the material. Tuesday, July 1, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office yellow kripa@mit.edu ... ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Brian Solomon, and postdoc M. ...

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Hope Regenerated

Text:  A “failed experiment” became a life-saving discovery by MIT Professor Ioannis V. Yannas. ... a life-saving discovery by MIT Professor Ioannis V. Yannas and his colleague Dr. John Burke when their search ... Emmy Winner! Mechanics Bioengineering Health Innovation Impact Home Research Home Undergraduate ...

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Bacteria: The Good and the Bad

the ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie ... use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to ... Research Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Student Home Prospective Undergrad Home ...

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Drinking Water From Thin Air

in the air, even in the most arid conditions. Mechanics Energy Science and Engineering Health ...

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New Faculty

mechanical engineering from Wichita State University, an MS in materials science and engineering from MIT ... , and a Naval Engineer’s degree from MIT. He has served in the US Navy for 15 years, most recently ... Applied Physics at Yale University, and then in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering here ...

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Startup with MIT roots wins R&D 100 Award

Leslie Bromberg, a research scientist at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Alexander ... measures the amount, type, and distribution of contaminants on filters used to reduce engine and vehicle ... emissions, while Sappok was still a graduate student at MIT’s Sloan Automotive Laboratory. The two first met ...

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Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ...

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2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health

fourth year, the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda, ... candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Gopalakrishnan’s goal is to develop ... The School of Engineering has selected 13 new Takeda Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. With ...

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Nominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces that nominations are now open for the Doherty ... Sea Grant Committee; and the director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program — following review and ... Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are ...

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A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight

got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the  MIT ... U.S. Navy, which has used a version of the unmanned submersible to locate landmines, has kept it ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ...

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