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Faculty Advising

http://adviseme.mit.edu UROP supervisors (research interests, grad school, career/networking advice) Instructors (class ...

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A Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes

MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ... August 11, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Culture Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Human ...

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Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month

MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ... Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... Traverso, a visiting scientist who will join the MIT faculty in 2019, along with lead authors Xinyue Liu, ...

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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber

carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ...

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Breakthrough in boiling

associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... describes its work in the March 11 issue of  Applied Physics Letters. Baglietto, who arrived at MIT in 2011, ... surrogate fuel assemblies and transparent walls, MIT researchers were able to observe the fine details in ...

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A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence

production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... commercialize their idea of joining machine vision with 3-D printing. At MIT, Matusik’s research group used ... a strategic partner of Inkbit, is in the process of acquiring one of the first printers. The MIT Startup ...

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Students present product prototypes inspired by kindness

of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... a sold-out crowd in Kresge Auditorium. Faculty, students, alumni, and staff from across the MIT community ... teaching assistants, and the team in MIT’s Pappalardo Lab to re-imagine the course in light of the ...

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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... Sensing Systems (LAMSS) including Daniel Goodwin and Bradli Howard, graduate students in the MIT ... ICEX will serve to help the Navy in that mission.” ICEXCollageStory.jpg A team of MIT engineers working ...

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A robot that finds lost items

figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ... October 5, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal A robotic arm, developed by Associate Professor ...

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Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds

out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ... a grant from the MIT-Brazil MISTI program, and the team began to explore whether more subtle stimuli, such ...

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A creative desire, and the grit to get it done

When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... academics. She jokingly says she chose MIT because it had the “best pool in the Northeast,” and speaks very ... water during practice.” She has applied to graduate school at MIT and has worked on projects through ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... the MIT researchers designed a simple model that performs a similar type of smoothing, enabling it to ... in part, by Amazon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and the Ocado Group. ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program. ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux

Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer   Sometimes the fastest pathway ... changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems ... and Wayne Leslie. The work was funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College. ...

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Faculty Research: Professor John Lienhard

Credit: David Castro-Olmedo/MIT   by Alissa Mallinson   If you live in a First World country, you probably do ... University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and leads the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT; he ... their innovation. For more information, watch a video at http://ilp.mit ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)

degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...

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Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage

Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources     Photo credit: MIT News ... Oceanographic Institution (Charette is a currently funded MIT Sea Grant investigator), Olesnavage selected sites ... collaboration between MIT and The Cyprus Institute: young, promising scientists performing cutting-edge research ...

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A new way to make microstructured surfaces

Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at ... Tuesday, July 29, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ...

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Squishy robots

applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... robotics.” Monday, July 14, 2014 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent red Collaboration PEKO@MIT.EDU ...

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A microchip for metastasis

Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...

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