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Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ... tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
feature stories of caring that inspire the MIT community, and highlight the ways that research supervisors ... ventures and experiences outside of MIT, such as internships and forming new startups. Moreover, his ... MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ... professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... in improving the efficiency of condensation systems that use water, such as the cooling systems used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyGlassy carbon, now with less heat
adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ... Department of Defense, National Science Foundation MRSEC Program, and the MIT Materials Processing Center. ... PhD '16 and a group of researchers at MIT have found that carbon nanotubes lower the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
Steam condensation is key to the worldwide production of electricity and clean water: It is part ... of the power cycle that drives 85 percent of all electricity-generating plants and about half of all ... improves the efficiency of this process could have enormous impact on global energy use. Now, a team of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... and other rigorous elements of an MIT education, but in 2.007 they could be superstars.” The ... field and buy a Corvette. But then I found out in the last part of my senior year that I could go to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%9873Engineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ... The albatross is one of the most efficient travelers in the animal world. One species, the ... wandering albatross, can fly nearly 500 miles in a single day, with just an occasional flap of its wings. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-identify-key-albatross%E2%80%99-marathon-flightIngestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... (25).jpg MIT engineers have shown that they can use magnetic fields to track the location of this ... Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-sensor-could-help-doctors-pinpoint-gi-difficultiesExcitons observed in action for the first time
by the National Science Foundation, and used facilities of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. ... A quasiparticle called an exciton — responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as ... exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed. Now scientists at MIT and the City ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excitons-observed-action-first-timeArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsStudy: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping
transitional issue,” says Neil Gershenfeld, an MIT professor, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), ... When the International Maritime Organization enacted a mandatory cap on the sulfur content of ... a less feasible option. Pictured here is the Hedwig Oldendorff vessel at the Port of Taicang, China, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-scrubbers-best-available-option-bulk-maritime-shippingNew design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), resulting in pressure on the brain — there have been ... a limited range of treatment options. The most common is the surgical placement of a medical device called ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shuntsA new way to mix oil and water
the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ... MIT, is now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois. Tuesday, November 7, 2017 David L. ... The reluctance of oil and water to mix together and stay that way is so well-known that it has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterFaculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing By David Chandler, MIT News Office Those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... Louis DeRidder, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in the ... MIT’s Karl van Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... inspired by nature. John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics, and renowned Spanish chef José Andrés ... have designed a cocktail accessory and a palate cleanser based on the mechanics of water bugs and water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsTackling a global warming conundrum
a multinational team of researchers, including John Marshall at MIT, published this week in the early online ... cloud formation, thus decreasing the amount of energy reaching the ground and providing a net cooling ... interesting dilemma in parts of Asia, considering China and India’s coal burning creates an aerosol problem ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-global-warming-conundrumCreating innovative health solutions for individuals and populations
adherence. His academic home at MIT is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, but his work integrates ... adherence to prescription medication schedules, and effective monitoring and management of chronic disease, ... for example, all contribute to better outcomes. However, each of these factors can be hindered by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-innovative-health-solutions-individuals-and-populationsAI-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 ... minimize its deviation from its intended trajectory in the face of unpredictable forces like gusty winds. ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environments