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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
briquettes that produce no soot and very little smoke. Ikalany saw an opportunity to use this technology in ... designs for a new drying system. “We spent a whole semester figuring out how to improve this airflow and ... Gleason and her team used heat lamps to replicate the heat and humidity in Uganda. They developed three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
simultaneously using a technique called meta-learning, which teaches the system how to adapt to different types ... Importantly, the technique automatically determines which optimization algorithm it should use to adapt to the ... often impossible to hand-design this structure in advance. Many control systems use an adaptation method ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsBlending medicine and mechanical engineering
Ellen Roche is used to bridging two worlds. Originally from Galway, she has spent the past ... development of a replacement aortic valve which was used in humans during her time at the company. “Getting to ... pumping. “The idea was to mechanically assist and augment the heart using a biomimetic approach rather than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
the richness of the pushing phenomena. This is important to help robots understand how pushing works, ... experiment, the researchers used Omnipush to train a model to predict the final pose of pushed objects, given ... getting the object in the position it wants,” Bauza says. “It decides how to move objects by first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationA microchip for metastasis
is known about how and why certain cancers spread to specific organs, such as bone, liver, and lungs. ... may be used in the future to test drugs that might stem metastasis, and also as a platform for ... it? We can use our model system both to understand this selectivity, and also to screen for drugs that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
come up with theories for how you might connect biology to mechanics.” Techet’s co-authors on the study ... “We can track from one time to another where those particles have moved, and can use image processing ... to get velocity vectors,” Techet explains. “Ideally that will give us an idea of how much thrust or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchThere’s Magic in Mechatronics
says, but more than anything else, it’s design. “If you just do electronics, but have no idea how to ... more able to imagine how other things might work when they’re designing them.” Trumper “really ... sense of how things actually work is really important,” Trumper says. “As a designer, you have to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-magic-mechatronicsSensing the body at all scales
semester, the symposium offered a glimpse at how sensing technologies are being used to sense and quantify ... and is giving us the tools to revolutionize how healthcare will be delivered,” said Brendan Cronin, ... “Nano sensors will be used to diagnose illness faster and be used to invent new medicine in the case of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
experiments to test how much force is required to tighten knots with an increasing number of twists. They then ... twists, creating increasingly longer braids. They then clamped one end of each braid to a table, used ... turns in the knot, and I can tell you what force is required to close it. Also, we now understand how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
nucleation sites that form on surfaces. The new findings apply to all of these and can be used to predict ... tenfold and also improves contrast and resolution. Using this approach, the researchers were able to ... time. The team then used this information to derive a precise mathematical description of the process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleation3D printing tiny parts for big impact
customers in the race toward ever smaller parts by offering new kinds of printers that are being used to ... a material to light to harden, or cure, it. One such approach, digital light processing (DLP), uses a flash ... really shows how demand for the end application is driving the industry to make things in a more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printing-tiny-parts-big-impactBuilding a framework for remote making
professionals, and technical staff on how to facilitate remote making safely. Using the information learned over ... supervisors’ decisions about how to make remotely while still putting safety first. “We created this framework ... teams developed a wiki that details how to approach remote making by different activity types such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-framework-remote-makingMIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field
fraction of an acre to the next. The researchers used the technique to automatically generate the first ... outcomes like yield, and how to farm more sustainably. One of the key preliminary steps is to map what is ... resources to maintain crop surveys, they could potentially use another source of ground data: roadside ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-remotely-map-crops-field-fieldLet your car tell you what it needs
the car’s actual speed. Then, vibration data can be used to determine how fast the wheels are turning. ... how clogged the air filter is and when to change it. And unlike many routine maintenance tasks, it’s ... need to be replaced soon, or that they are overinflated and might risk a blowout, the researchers use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsSquishy robots
Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build ... What’s more, controlling a very soft structure is extremely difficult: It is much harder to predict how ... they then used a 3-D printer to build a second version of the foam lattice structure, to allow them to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsPills of the future: nanoparticles
cancer. However, the particles have to be injected into patients, which has limited their usefulness so ... Science Translational Medicine, the researchers used the particles to demonstrate oral delivery of insulin ... in mice, but they say the particles could be used to carry any kind of drug that can be encapsulated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-future-nanoparticlesTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
plant and there’s not much of an economy to build on. People use relatively little water because they ... lack easy access, and the approach is often to purify water at the point of use or to provide some very ... problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-v3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
work depends in large part on how people get to work. Policy recommendations in the trucking sector ... with doctoral candidate Erik Stayton to explore the future of autonomous vehicles (AV) — an area that ... Mobility, and Employment Policy: The Roads Ahead,” looks at how the AV transition will affect jobs and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-john-leonard-future-autonomous-vehiclesMIT-derived algorithm helps forecast the frequency of extreme weather
models might be used to gauge, for instance, future climate conditions for the northeastern U.S., but not ... combine a coarse model’s large-scale predictions with a finer-resolution model, tuned to estimate how ... corrected, the models can help to determine where and how often extreme weather will strike as global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-derived-algorithm-helps-forecast-frequency-extreme-weatherResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
"it is shown how adding a simple salt, lithium iodide, can potentially be used to make these batteries ... run much more efficiently. They have provided new insight into how the lithium iodide acts to help ... a given weight as today’s leading technology, lithium-ion batteries. But tests of various approaches to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-material