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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ... Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airAdvancing industry convergence through technology and innovation
Launched in October 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology ... MIT graduate students working on research in industry and technology convergence who are ... Fatunde. Bottom row, left to right: André Medeiros Sztutman and Kaymie Shiozawa. Photo Credit: MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-industry-convergence-through-technology-and-innovationOne giant leap for the mini cheetah
Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Now, Margolis and his collaborators have developed a system that improves the ... its body. The researchers tested their system on the MIT mini cheetah, a powerful, agile robot built ... the paper with senior author Pulkit Agrawal, who heads the Improbable AI lab at MIT and is the Steven ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/one-giant-leap-mini-cheetahEngineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
by Nicholas Rolston, Stanford, and edited by MIT News. Perovskite illustration by Christine Daniloff, ... MIT. The system, developed by researchers at MIT and Stanford University over the last few years, makes ... a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, Stanford professor of materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-enlist-ai-help-scale-advanced-solar-cell-manufacturingIngestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ... Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-%E2%80%9Celectroceutical%E2%80%9D-capsule-stimulates-hunger-regulating-hormoneHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ... in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... MIT News The team carried out experiments in which they dispensed water droplets of various sizes and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
recent years to design similar bioinspired, waterproof adhesives. Now engineers from MIT and Freie ... fibers (blue strand) from mucin and mussel-inspired polymers, MIT researchers have created a new glue ... design approach will depend on the specific precursor materials,” says George Degen, a postdoc in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glueA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... his work at MIT's Election Data and Science Lab. “When I started, I was just looking for a place ... at MIT's Environmental Dynamics Lab (ENDLab) developing monitoring technology for marine carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ... adaptation,” says Navid Azizan, who is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsA new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items
“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects ... like personal items, clothes, and artwork. Now MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... intelligence of nature,” says MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) PhD student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-%E2%80%9Cpaint-light%E2%80%9D-create-radiant-color-changing-itemsPreview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
waste time, effort, and material. MIT researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that generates an ... envision how a fabricated object will look, researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use ... a fellow EECS graduate student; Raul Hernandez, an MIT undergraduate; SooYeon Ahn, a graduate student at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/preview-tool-helps-makers-visualize-3d-printed-objectsInnovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat
Low-cost personal cooling and emissions-free air conditioning among ideas studied with MIT ... ’s Climate Project seed funding. When MIT mechanical engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi landed in New Delhi ... it was not like this,” Varanasi says. “That kind of inspired me.” The MIT Climate Project requested ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovative-projects-explore-ways-deal-extreme-heatHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ... device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberAlumni Spotlight: Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11)
got an organization, you can do all kinds of things.” From the time he arrived at MIT in 2007 as ... a freshman, Rustagi threw himself into project after project, from starting the MIT live music club and ... MIT was because of its renowned entrepreneurial network, the iconic culture of MIT startups. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kevin-rustagi-sb-%E2%80%9911Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... concentrated sunlight by a factor of several thousand. But the MIT researchers say that after further ... included MIT graduate students David Bierman and Walker Chan, former postdoc Youngsuk Nam, and research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Nathan Cermak is also a lead author of the paper, and Manalis, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... than gold, the MIT team’s work is the first clear demonstration that the technique can work with gold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightCooling when there’s too much heat
a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heat‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ... University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffness