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Startup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsStudent Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program Photo ... and is a recipient of the prestigious 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions that ... He also worked with high school students at an MIT-sponsored summer design course to invent and build ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended ... spyce-restaurant-robotic-kitchen-mit-alumni-founders-daniel-bouloud-1024.jpg The Spyce team (left to right) includes Luke Schlueter ’16; Michael Farid ’14, SM ’16; Kale Rogers ... Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, took an Independent Activities Period course on startups, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsOptimizing parking in the busiest places
MIT-Smarking.jpg “We want to see, in the next five years or so, the amount of time you need to search for parking ... Wen Sang PhD ’14. Now, MIT spinout Smarking is bringing data analytics to the parking industry. It ... country are using Smarking. In August, the company signed a contract with MIT. Now the Parking and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/optimizing-parking-busiest-placesSmart manufacturing program boosts productivity in factories
Sharing of knowledge in a collaborative, hands-on environment is a hallmark of MIT ... Arconic — and won glowing reviews from them for content and delivery. The MIT Smart Manufacturing ... Leadership Program, developed in collaboration with MIT Professional Education, featured several webinars and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-manufacturing-program-boosts-productivity-factoriesLow-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet
Now MIT researchers have developed a “smart” diaper embedded with a moisture sensor that can alert ... MIT-Diaper-RFID-1024.jpg A new disposable, affordable “smart” diaper embedded with an RFID tag is designed by MIT ... a notification to a caregiver that it’s time for a change. Image: MIT News The sensor consists of a passive radio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-%E2%80%9Csmart%E2%80%9D-diaper-can-notify-caregiver-when-it%E2%80%99s-wetTurning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels
emitted, seeing it as a sunk cost and an environmental liability. The MIT spinout Emvolon is taking a new ... like landfills and oil wells.” MIT_EmVolon-02-Press.jpg Emvolon co-founders Emmanuel Kasseris SM ’07, ... MIT to study mechanical engineering as a graduate student in 2004, when he worked in the Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-automotive-engines-modular-chemical-plants-make-green-fuelsGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ... Guardian Ag, founded by former MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) makers Adam Bercu and Charles Guan ... engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsQuantum Physics Meets Genetic Engineering
used by engineers at MIT to achieve a significant efficiency boost in a light-harvesting system. ... Surprisingly, the MIT researchers achieved this new approach to solar energy not with high-tech materials or ... microchips — but by using genetically engineered viruses. MIT-Enhanced-Excitonics_ 1024.jpg Rendering of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-physics-meets-genetic-engineeringA Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
country has banned or is phasing out the inefficient technology. Now, researchers at MIT and Purdue ... Nanotechnology by three MIT professors — Marin Soljačić, professor of physics; John Joannopoulos, the Francis ... Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsNano flashlight enables new applications of light
minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their approach to ... of light focused on a single point. nano-flashlight-mit-00.png Schematic of three different nano ... not built into the chip itself as the sensors are. Complete sensor Enter the MIT work. In two recent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nano-flashlight-enables-new-applications-lightA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
disease-ravaged organs. MIT-Active-Learning-01_0.jpg But the human body has about 20,000 genes, and a genetic ... struggle to find the ideal perturbation for their particular application. Researchers from MIT and ... Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a researcher at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
2006. MIT-Sistine-Solar.jpg Founded at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sistine Solar creates custom ... But that adoption rate could still use a boost, according to MIT spinout Sistine Solar. “If you look ... mass adoption,” says co-founder Senthil Balasubramanian MBA ’13. Founded at the MIT Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... MIT-Sea-Sensing-01-1024.jpg WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and ... AUVs. “Not all data are equal,” says Arkopal Dutt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Gliding From Classroom to Market
MIT-Ello_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ELLO In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, ... Glyde, is already being used by hundreds of people worldwide. And the MIT spinout selling the product, ... their people aren’t getting hurt.” Data-driven design From its early days at MIT, ELLO has followed what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
7. MIT-Schwartz-Nick-01_1024.jpg “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can ... change people’s lives for the better,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz. Image: Ian MacLellan “I came up ... tradition, which is funded by the MIT SHASS-based de Florez Fund for Humor. Schwartz tends to make a lot of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-lives-heart-humor-and-engineeringReliable energy for all
studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” MIT-Student-Nyovanie-1024.jpg “The best thing ... about being at MIT is that people are working on all these cool, different things that they’re ... knew he wanted to study engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reliable-energy-allAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... that has not been without hurdles, much like Henry’s own path to MIT. In 2020, he was granted a faculty ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunThe environmental toll of disposable masks
That toll could be dramatically cut by adopting reusable masks, according to a new study from MIT that ... greatest cost savings, but also significant reduction in waste,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ... strongly consider and minimize the potential negative impact on the environment.” MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
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