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The physics of curly hair
cable develop after being coiled around a spool for transport. In the field, these materials often act ... like a stubborn garden hose whose intrinsic curves make it behave in unpredictable ways. In engineering ... Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairMagnetic mixer improves 3D bioprinting
Development Professor of Tissue Engineering and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... bioprinting, in which living tissues are printed with cells mixed into soft hydrogels, or “bio-inks,” is widely ... interfering with the printer. MagMix uses an internal magnetic propeller that moves in response to an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-mixer-improves-3d-bioprintingInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
the newly formed Department of Biological Engineering, with joint appointments in EECS and mechanical ... teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering ... developing osteoarthritis in subsequent years. And while knee replacements can counteract the effects of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisMIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field
the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... the resources to maintain. MIT-mapping-crops-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... have developed a method to quickly and accurately label and map crop types without requiring in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-remotely-map-crops-field-fieldLetting robots manipulate cables
Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... uses a pair of soft robotic grippers with high-resolution tactile sensors (and no added mechanical ... Then, in combination with a second gripper, the robot can move the cable “hand over hand” (as a human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cablesNew control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
mathematics, careful engineering, and a vision for robots that can safely interact with humans and delicate ... Environmental Engineering, and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). ... Mechanical Engineering PhD student Kiwan Wong, the lead author of a new paper describing the framework. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-control-system-teaches-soft-robots-art-staying-safePills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
compatible with all drugs. “We’ve developed systems that can stay in the body for a long time, and we know ... MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... that the sticky sensor can detect early signs of acute liver failure in rats. The engineers are working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsA technique for more effective multipurpose robots
on PoCo. Wang’s coauthors include Jialiang Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate student; ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of CSAIL. The research will be ... with a spatula. PoCo led to a 20 percent improvement in task performance compared to baseline methods. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsMIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
Center for Ocean Engineering, which is housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; IDSS, which is ... Program. Research today is at the forefront of ocean science and engineering, with significant efforts in ... Conor McArdle | School of Engineering A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony at MIT last ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-sets-sail-0A new way to harness waste heat
which accounts for a large proportion of potentially harvestable waste heat. In a demonstration with ... was not around at that time” for the battery electrodes, as well as advances in engineering the ... Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
nonresponding cells, in hopes of developing drugs that could be used together with the original MDM2 inhibitor. ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ... and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityOur History, at Hart
marine technology archives in the United States. This space tells the story of MIT’s deep history with ... – mechanics, design and manufacturing, control, instrumentation and robotics, energy, ocean engineering ... begins in 1980 with the 3D Printing Project where the field was founded by Professors Ely Sachs, Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartNew pill can deliver insulin
Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he is starting as a faculty member in 2019, is also a senior ... Capsule that releases insulin in the stomach could replace injections for patients with type ... the stomach, it can orient itself so the needle is in contact with the lining of the stomach. “As soon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-pill-can-deliver-insulinAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Gastric balloons — silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach — can ... engineers have designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. In an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weight