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Robot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... robot is able to mimic this action. Mechanics of quicksand When the razor clam begins to dig, it first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsRobot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
robots traversing uneven terrain,” says co-author Daniela Rus, MIT professor of electrical engineering ... a shift from programming robots to teaching robots,” says Sizhe Lester Li, MIT PhD student in electrical ... mechanical engineering; and Chao Liu, a postdoc in the Senseable City Lab at MIT. The research was supported ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-know-thyself-new-vision-based-system-teaches-machines-understand-their-bodiesExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... Nelson, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. “There’s good reason to believe that second ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadMIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University; an MIT-Takeda Fellowship, ... the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in the Department of Biological Engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Biological sequences such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and glycans have the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-build-system-can-generate-ai-models-biology-researchSand, Sand Everywhere
mechanics course taught by the assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His work in the lab involves ... engineering major, is captain of MIT’s men’s track and field team — and when he isn’t launching himself into ... Carrington Motley spends a lot of his time at MIT surrounded by sand. “Yeah, sand is everywhere,” he admits ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sand-sand-everywhereResearchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ... have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... from a buildup of pressure. The new method of preventing the icy buildup is described in a paper in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingHow strong is your knot?
experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ... adds Mathias Kolle, the Rockwell International Career Development Associate Professor at MIT. “And now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotDiagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test
Joining Professor Patrick Doyle’s lab in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering gave Al-Sulaiman the ... , Al-Sulaiman says, “One of the important things I took away from my time at MIT, especially during the peak of ... idea from my PhD supervisor, who said, ‘in the future you’ll be able to scan a diagnostic test like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diagnosing-cancer-barcode-inspired-testWrinkle Predictions
Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ... Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. In past ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsUnderstanding the impact of climate change on the ocean
from climate change through an ocean engineer’s lens in a number of ocean environments, including ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Entrepreneurship International Maker ... 2-OE (Mechanical and Ocean Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-climate-change-oceanPalak Patel
the summer of 2024. It is far from the only such technology that researchers are working on, as they ... dollars from mission costs,” says Mr White as he explains that the alternative – bringing lots of oxygen ... is full of metal oxides. But while the science of extracting oxygen from metal oxides, for example, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patelTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... moved to the U.S. to attend the University of Notre Dame, and later the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitiveA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ... at the top universities in the world. “It’s a burning problem, but the risk of failure was so high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
University of Khartoum from Jabal Awlia, was excited to participate in the inaugural program. "The ... member in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had an opportunity to observe the ... MIT technology and policy master's student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... published in the journal Nature Communications by postdoc Yuan Yang and professor Gang Chen at MIT, postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatHow to clean solar panels without water
graduate student Sreedath Panat and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Despite concerted ... a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... side of the panel. The research is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma
professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ... professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, center, with ... students in her lab (Photo: Tony Pulsone, MIT MechE) “We engineer optogenetic muscle grafts that contract ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma