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Less-wasteful laser-cutting
waste. The underlying technologies that use lasers to cut edges aren’t actually all that cutting-edge: ... their users are often in the dark about how much of each material they’ve used, or if a design they have ... how much material is used. “By giving feedback on the feasibility of a design as it’s being created, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/less-wasteful-laser-cuttingMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), to develop ingestible devices that may one day be used to treat ... devices that could be used to treat diabetes, obesity, and other conditions through oral delivery of mRNA. ... that can deliver drugs to the GI tract. This approach could be especially useful for protein drugs and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-diseaseTurning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels
a precursor to several important chemicals. The main barrier to using methane emissions to create ... electrify a large ship or plane — you have to use a high-energy-density, low-carbon-footprint, low-cost ... synthesize a variety of chemicals.” The hydrogen and carbon monoxide are intermediate products used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-automotive-engines-modular-chemical-plants-make-green-fuelsMIT Libraries and MIT MakerWorkshop launch Equipment to Go
a pilot project to provide access to tools and other equipment often used in makerspaces. A range of kits ... contraption like a roller coaster, and you want to use an accelerometer to make sure it’s safe. You’re not ... containing equipment such as hand tools, cameras, electronics, and sensors, are now available to check out ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-libraries-and-mit-makerworkshop-launch-equipment-goBringing closure to models: Deep learning physics
New approach allows researchers to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to discover ... Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models, like ChatGPT, use deep machine learning algorithms to generate ... human-like, conversational text responses to prompts. The technology is incredibly useful for tasks like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-closure-models-deep-learning-physicsSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
ways to desalinate seawater or brackish water using just solar heat. Many such efforts have run into ... expensive than previous solar desalination methods. The process could also be used to treat contaminated ... we can concentrate the sunlight a little bit, we could use this passive device to generate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationA new way to make microstructured surfaces
ability to repel water in a certain direction. “We have demonstrated that mechanical forces can be used to ... to bend as they grow. The mechanism is analogous to the bending of a bimetallic strip, used as the ... Hart explains. “It’s a new principle of using mechanics to control the growth of a nanostructured ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
materials currently used to make surfaces hydrophobic are exposed to 100 degrees Celsius steam, “after one ... Steam condensation is key to the worldwide production of electricity and clean water: It is part ... desalination plants globally, according to the United Nations and International Energy Agency. So anything that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastA new way to harness waste heat
than what was used to charge it. That extra energy, of course, doesn’t just appear from nowhere: It ... to assure reliability over a long period of use, and to improve the speed of battery charging and ... so much of this low-temperature waste heat, if a technology can be created and deployed to use it.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
hundred nanometers of silicon and then using a laser to melt the surface for a few nanoseconds. The ... might lead to infrared imaging systems, Buonassisi says, its efficiency is probably too low for use in ... systems that are responsive to a broad range of infrared light Researchers have tried a variety of methods ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
Engineering. Kim envisions the technique can be used to manufacture low-cost, high-performance devices such as ... to produce “copies” of expensive semiconducting materials using graphene — an atomically thin sheet ... wondered whether their technique could be used to copy other semiconducting materials. They tried applying ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsENDLab develops and demonstrates new abyssal ocean sensor to inform deep-sea mining
techniques that have been used to-date get things incorrect, because by collecting sediment samples and ... mining operation matched those from a simple test maneuver, opening the door for the latter to be used as ... environmental impact deep-sea-nodule collection could have. The data can now be used to inform future modeling ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/endlab-develops-and-demonstrates-new-abyssal-ocean-sensor-inform-deep-sea-mining2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: 2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT Teaser Text: In this ... year’s Introduction to Robotics, undergraduate students joined forces to build a robot that can emulate ... Introduction to Robotics, taught by Professor Harry Asada and Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi, undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/212-introduction-robotics-mitAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
his topic for nearly two years. “That exposure has transformed my perspective on how to identify ... Corey Fucetola studied how to transfer sub-micrometer thick substrates of patterned silicon from ... innovative way to import beer. His approach allows foreign beer to reach our shores fresher than ever before, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
increase power plant output by up to 7 percent using existing infrastructure. Because steam condensers are ... gains will also lead to less water use. Water sent from cooling towers is a common means of keeping ... output.” The company will use the prize money, in part, to begin testing in a real power plant environment. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeAn easier way to remove medical devices
(EGaIn). In practice, this might work by painting the liquid onto staples used to hold skin together, for ... well as energy and flexible electronics. For the devices themselves, the researchers chose to use ... The researchers then created aluminum staples and showed that they could be used to hold tissue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devicesEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
team — have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable underwater robots, using simple ... demonstrated that it was indeed capable of generating forward thrust sufficient to propel itself forward using ... a whale-like submersible craft, using its morphable body shape to create propulsion. Such a craft that could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsFrom microfluidics to metastasis
informative studies that cannot be performed in patients. For example, these models can be used to trace the ... using a dialysis-like system to track metabolites in the bloodstream of mice in the laboratory of ... approach could be used to study rare CTCs in real time? Along with their Koch Institute colleague Alex K. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-metastasisTurning emissions into fuel
process can be used as a fuel by itself or combined with hydrogen and/or water to make many other liquid ... of some vaccum and some fuel can be used to reduce the energy required to drive the process and ... produce a useful product. The energy input needed to keep the process going, Wu says, is heat, which could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuel