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Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
electronic waste. Now MIT engineers have taken a step toward that modular vision with a LEGO-like design for ... designs not reconfigurable. The MIT design uses light, rather than physical wires, to transmit information ... on, for instance to add new sensors or updated processors. MIT-Stackable-AI-01-press_1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-build-lego-artificial-intelligence-chipWindow-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT ... With that goal in mind, the MIT team has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and ... a tube, as clean and drinkable water. MIT-Water-Harvester-01-press_1024x768.jpg A close-up of a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterNew Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable ... researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device ... MIT-Biological-Circuit-1024.jpg Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT (yeast cell images from National Institutes of Health) The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-device-could-make-large-biological-circuits-practicalA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
become resistant. In a new approach to devising more personalized treatments, researchers at MIT and ... cells, based on how it affects their growth rates. MIT-Cancer-Cell-Mass.jpg Researchers have developed ... Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugs3D printing tiny parts for big impact
parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ... functions. MIT-BMF-Technologies-1024.jpg Boston Micro Fabrication’s machines use a technology co-developed by ... MIT Professor Nicholas Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale. Image ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printing-tiny-parts-big-impactEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsWhere to Grab Space Debris
a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ... Station (ISS). Image courtesy of NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Space trash “There are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
time at MIT, where her curiosity about how things work and enthusiasm for hands-on discovery have ... continued to motivate her. MIT-Larissa-Senatus-1024.jpg Photo by Ian MacLellan Senatus grew up in ... started thinking about college, she began looking abroad for opportunities to study engineering. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells ... environmental conditions. MIT-Cell-Mass-Sensor.jpg A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the ... respond to drugs,” MIT professor Scott Manalis says. Illustration by Christine Daniloff/MIT The technique, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ... MIT team, called PipeGuard, intends to commercialize its robotic detection system to help alleviate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixPutting projects at the forefront
all in. She is among MIT’s 45 second-year students engaged in a pilot educational initiative that has ... the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ... Mitchell Guillaume, Michael Everett, and Yu Liang (Gloria) Fang. Photo: Lillie Paquette/MIT School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontOn the cutting edge
a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... Winter Olympics, for short-track speedskating. MIT-Student-Malone-1024.jpg “Before I ever wanted to be ... Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ... laboratory to a significant place in the global solar market. MIT-Scaling-Perovskite-1024.jpg Perovskites, ... potential for new kinds of solar cells. A new study from MIT shows how these materials could gain a foothold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsGiving robots better moves
That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which ... efficiency. MIT-Righthand-robotics-1024.jpg Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent ... a simpler, streamlined process.” Pushing the limit Odhner completed his PhD in the lab of Harry Asada, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesAn easier way to remove medical devices
By taking advantage of a phenomenon that leads to fractures in metal, MIT researchers have ... Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... Traverso is the senior author of the study, which appears in Advanced Materials. Vivian Feig, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devices“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... particles or droplets moving over them. MIT-Active-Surfaces-01.jpg Photo shows a water droplet sitting on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ... resulting texture. MIT-Rules-Wrinkles- 1024.jpg Why do layered materials form one kind of wrinkly pattern or ... another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasing2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ... annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... Bridge, and a Boston Tea Party ship dubbed the H.M.S. Beaver. MIT-2007-Robots-2016_1024.jpg Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-stylePrintable electronics
MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsUsing light to propel water
A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ...
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