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A pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy

Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ... ourselves, how could we expand the good results we got with rehab robots to a ubiquitous device?” Krebs ... group then used as a starting point for their study. The researchers then looked for ways to ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood

inside engines and how to use computer simulations for analysis – but the book also covered engines more ... a major contributor to Los Angeles smog, though no one yet knew how these emissions were produced. “It was ... breaking – which is when the kinetic energy of breaking is used to recharge the batteries – and as these ...

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Four researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships

anywhere within the material. “I want to use these materials to make tools for clinicians and ... neuroscientists to better understand how humans touch and grasp objects around them,” says Chin. “I’m especially ... of touch and learn how to move objects around like humans do.” Neil Dalvie PD ’ 22, PhD ’ 22 is ...

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Robo-picker grasps and packs

technologies. “This can be applied to warehouse sorting, but also may be used to pick things from your kitchen ... researchers trained the robotic arm to pick novel objects out from a cluttered bin, using any one of four main ... vertically, then using a flexible spatula to slide between the object and the wall. Rodriguez and his team ...

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Julia Sokol

Susan Amrose The emitters used in drip irrigation disperse water evenly, as opposed to flood irrigation ... via solar power, the use of the new emitters could reduce costs to the farmer by 40%. “For farmers in ... When it comes to the health of the planet, agriculture and food production play an enormous role. ...

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Unlocking new science with devices that control electric power

be used to study things like semiconductor devices, actuators, and energy storage devices, or to ... precisely charge batteries without damaging their performance. The equipment can also be used to study ... material performance because it can measure how materials react to precise electrical stimulation at a high ...

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Mo Mirvakili

be used to study things like semiconductor devices, actuators, and energy storage devices, or to ... precisely charge batteries without damaging their performance. The equipment can also be used to study ... material performance because it can measure how materials react to precise electrical stimulation at a high ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/mo-mirvakili

MechE Research Ramp-up Guidelines

uses, etc.) is not currently planned. To request such access in another PI lab, please fill out this ... safety plans for research with human subjects, research with animals, field research; how/where to store ... personal belongings; where to eat if at MIT; etc. Building entrance checks using MIT IDs or other card ...

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GEARing technology for developing markets

manage off-road and way too big to use indoors,” Winter says. “I saw a need for a product that could go ... fast and efficiently on rough terrain, but was still small enough to use indoors.” That insight ... scale to different sizes and with different materials — information others can use to adapt the ...

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Reducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy

But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... farmers to get the same effects by using only 1/10 as much of the pesticide or other spray. And the ... pollution. The new approach would require only minor changes to the existing equipment that farmers use, to ...

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Unlocking ammonia as a fuel source for heavy industry

MIT teach you how to think deeply about solving technical problems using systems-based approaches,” ... oxides. Since Amogy’s founding in 2020, the company has used its ammonia-cracking technology to create the ... the way. “No one has showcased that ammonia can be used to power things at the scale of ships and ...

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PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

improve human health and livelihoods. From developing a way to use aluminum waste to produce electricity ... countries. His PhD research focuses on new methods to decrease the cost and energy use of groundwater ... Godart's current research at MIT focuses on improving global sustainability by using aluminum waste to ...

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Alex Kachkine

filled in these regions using 57,314 different colors. The entire process, from start to finish, took 3.5 ... Kachkine developed a method to physically apply a digital restoration onto an original painting, using ... a 15th-century painting that he acquired when he first came to MIT. His new method involves first using ...

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Saving seaweed with machine learning

use a machine learning neural network to convert the 2D image into a representation of the microbiome ... out how to communicate these data back to the research team, Xia drew upon her master’s degree ... mysteries of our oceans. The communication devices can be used to relay data about the ocean environment ...

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3-D Printing 101

computer software, to precisely fabricate a three-dimensional object. The technology has been used to make ... however, 3-D printing is a small-scale fabrication tool, used by engineers and designers to quickly print ... fundamentals, applications, and implications of 3-D printing. The students attend lectures, learn to use ...

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Knitted microtissue can accelerate healing

collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ... uncrimp, in addition to how stiff it became after it started stretching. All showed a high rate of cell ... a provisional patent that outlines how to create these patterns and identifies the appropriate materials that ...

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Mapping the effects of crystal defects

has slowed progress toward using dislocations to tailor the thermal properties of materials. A team at ... MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... or how well current flows through a silicon solar panel. There have been two competing approaches to ...

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Building the tools of the next manufacturing revolution

redefine manufacturing at scale and rethink how resources are committed to manufacturing throughout the ... of the Future initiative, for which he’s assembled a team to examine how demands on workers across ... incredibly helpful in shaping my perspective of how we at MIT can contribute to the future of manufacturing,” ...

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Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test

Al-Sulaiman’s barcode-inspired method uses widely available materials to translate the results of liquid samples ... into simple-to-read patterns.  The current widely used techniques for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and ... uses widely available materials to translate the results of liquid samples, such as urine or blood, ...

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In Search of a Major She Loves

skills she can use to help people back home in Sudan. Amna-Magzoub-1024.jpg “I never saw myself doing ... moves taught her how to adapt to new situations. “My life has always been new adventure, new place, new ... Bringing new skills and ideas home Magzoub’s experiences at MIT have helped her envision how she might use ...

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