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Giving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Science Foundation. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International Maker ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ... student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... part, by MIT’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence and an MIT Mathworks Fellowship. ... Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtPrintable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and ... John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... from our aluminum alloys.” Monday, October 6, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-partsCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
New research from the MIT Device Research Lab uncovers the hidden world of salt creeping Salt ... when it does,’ says Joseph Phelim Mooney, a postdoctoral researcher in the MIT Device Research ... even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. In the journal Light: Science and Applications, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ... author Michael Wessely, a recent postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesA robot that finds lost items
October 5, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal A robotic arm, developed by Associate Professor ... figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... Intelligence Advanced Research (Projects Activity (IARPA). Monday, December 14, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadNoninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes
(LBRC) and an MIT professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering; and Youngkyu Kim and ... December 2, 2025 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Noninvasive imaging could replace finger ... A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-people-diabetesA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... to commercialization.” Monday, April 16, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... Health. Thursday, February 8, 2024 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao and his team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... Engineering at MIT. “Our design concept is to provide older adults having balance impairment with robotic ... Bolli, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “All the demographic trends ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallTurning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A study by Assistant Professor Kailtyn Becker, inspired by Japanese ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-circle-square-possible-kirigami-inspired-formulaChecking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-tool“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office orange kripa@mit.edu Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi has developed ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... January 30, 2019 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent Collaboration Horizontal A technique developed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfoldAlumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09
sustainability. Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe conducted his master’s and ... compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ...
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