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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... its end effector will meet an object, in real-time,” says MIT graduate student David Nguyen. Nguyen is ... a co-author of the new study, along with MIT graduate student Kendrick Cancio and Sangbae Kim, associate ...

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Eldercare 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 ... them by rapidly inflating side airbags if they begin to fall. MIT-ElderCare-Robot-01-press_1024.jpg Six ... of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top ...

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New 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste

waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... solvents. MIT-Dissolvable-Supports-01-press_1024x768.jpg Researchers have developed a resin that turns into ... that is easily dissolvable in certain solvents. Image: Courtesy of the researchers; MIT News The team ...

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Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable

fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its entire life cycle. A new process developed by MIT ... MIT_Hydrogen-FOOTPRINT-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are ... ballpark of green hydrogen,” says lead author Aly Kombargi PhD ’25, who graduated this spring from MIT with ...

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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... missions of the recently launched  Climate Project at MIT, which focus on research areas such as ...

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Wind Energy Reaches Greater Heights

Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... to the wind farm.” MIT-Keystone-1024.jpg   Model of a turbine constructed with Keystone Tower ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ...

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Developing tech for, and with, people with disabilities

a wheelchair to avoid such situations. ATHack-2019-Ellen-MIT-1024.jpg ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza ... (center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... pairs teams of students, most but not all of whom study at MIT, with people from the Boston and ...

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2.009 lights up the stage

On Monday night, MIT’s Kresge Auditorium might as well have been a rock arena, for all the ... was technology. MIT-2.009-05-1024.jpg Members of each of the eight student teams take the stage for ... product designers attended one of MIT’s most anticipated annual events to cheer on the 139 students of ...

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Helping older adults stay safe and independent

is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... engineering at MIT, Chamberlain was involved in a lot more than just his coursework. In one of his first weeks ...

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Motion-Induced Quicksand

MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... replicating the Couette cell geometry. MIT-Quicksand.jpg Photo: Martin Van Hecke/Leiden Modeling spin and ...

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Waves in the Deep

wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ... a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...

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Domitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology

home. MIT-DelVecchio-1024.jpg Photo: M. Scott Brauer “He had a lab at our place that was full of all ... research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... “the strong program here in synthetic biology and biological engineering,” and by MIT’s encouragement ...

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Bubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch

first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an ... being hydrophilic and hydrophobic, Wang explains. MIT-Switchable-Boiling.jpg Researchers found that ... electric controls using the new technology.” The research was supported by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for ...

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Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier

developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... at MIT. “Our big vision for this device and future iterations is to be able to take a process that ... and will survive the poration process, and it will uptake the DNA,” Buie says. MIT ...

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A new approach to ultrafast light pulses

relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ... applications for these materials. MIT-FastLight-Emit-1024.jpg In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice ... findings are described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...

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Let your car tell you what it needs

accelerometers. MIT-Car-Diagnostics-1024.jpg A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as ... listening for when it starts to snore,” Joshua Siegel says. Image: MIT News The MIT research behind this ... Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ...

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Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale

Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ... journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ...

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Air pollution can put a dent in solar power

Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ... instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ...

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A new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces

MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... agreement between MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi (now Khalifa ...

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Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

other words, these microbes can actually produce electricity. MIT ... laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ... do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ...

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