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Developing tech for, and with, people with disabilities
a wheelchair to avoid such situations. ATHack-2019-Ellen-MIT-1024.jpg ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza ... (center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... pairs teams of students, most but not all of whom study at MIT, with people from the Boston and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-tech-and-people-disabilitiesHelping older adults stay safe and independent
is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... engineering at MIT, Chamberlain was involved in a lot more than just his coursework. In one of his first weeks ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentMotion-Induced Quicksand
MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... replicating the Couette cell geometry. MIT-Quicksand.jpg Photo: Martin Van Hecke/Leiden Modeling spin and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandWaves in the Deep
wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ... a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepDomitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology
home. MIT-DelVecchio-1024.jpg Photo: M. Scott Brauer “He had a lab at our place that was full of all ... research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... “the strong program here in synthetic biology and biological engineering,” and by MIT’s encouragement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/domitilla-del-vecchio-bridges-math-engineering-and-biologyBreaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... at MIT. “Our big vision for this device and future iterations is to be able to take a process that ... and will survive the poration process, and it will uptake the DNA,” Buie says. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ... applications for these materials. MIT-FastLight-Emit-1024.jpg In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice ... findings are described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesLet your car tell you what it needs
accelerometers. MIT-Car-Diagnostics-1024.jpg A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as ... listening for when it starts to snore,” Joshua Siegel says. Image: MIT News The MIT research behind this ... Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ... journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ... instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerA new way to make droplets bounce away
MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ... described in the journal ACS Nano in a paper by MIT graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, postdoc Dan Soto, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ... into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ... for a particular purpose. MIT-Cultured-Plants-Chart1024.jpg The technology, as demonstrated in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureHow to make hydrogels more injectable
materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... appears today in the journal Matter. Connor Verheyen, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ... MIT-GelSignEndoFlex-01-press_0.jpg MIT researchers developed a soft-rigid robotic finger that incorporates powerful sensors along its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspRohit Karnik seeks sustainable solutions through nanotechnology
challenges. MIT-Karnik-Rohit-1_1024.jpg “I try to guide my research by... asking myself the question, ‘What ... civilization?’” says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo by ... Ken Richardson In one of his many projects, Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-seeks-sustainable-solutions-through-nanotechnologyDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ... researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ... Materials, in a paper by Mircea Dincă, an MIT associate professor of chemistry; Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonSpray tuning
specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...
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