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Autonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
(HAUV), originally developed as part of MIT’s Sea Grant program. The technology has since been ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ... the Office of Naval Research. Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ... funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Glen Gawarkiewicz, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineSangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSWAbtQqhlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Assistant Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sangbae-kim-inspired-natureEngineering Fluids at the Nanoscale
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Professor Rohit Karnik addresses real-world challenges with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fluids-nanoscaleHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0The Wonders of Thin Structures
& Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structuresFaculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan
Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness by David Chandler, MIT News Office For most healthy ... elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-neville-hoganAlumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)
in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... conjunction with US News & World Report and Innovator for the Next Century by MIT Technology Review. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red Education Maker DRWALLAC@MIT.EDU Horizontal The theme for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsLearning to Solve
experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... say, ‘only at MIT,’ SuperUROP is exactly what we are talking about,” adds Waitz. In fact, nearly 90 ... percent of undergraduate students participate in research during their time at MIT, a hallmark of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter3-D printing with cellulose
paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... extrude. Instead, the MIT team chose to work with cellulose acetate — a material that is easily made from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseScientists make microscopes from droplets
Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsMapping the effects of crystal defects
MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ... included Zhiwei Ding, Jiawei Zhou, and Professor Hong Liu at MIT, and Qingping Meng and Yimei Zhu at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes. The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... FireSense. The yellow team simulated a search and rescue team’s efforts on MIT’s campus, providing a live ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... are limited to specific materials. Instead, the MIT team focused on making the fewest changes ...
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