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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
Professor Pierre Lermusiaux has figured out how to do. They have developed a mathematical procedure that can ... time or for the minimum use of energy, or to maximize the collection of data that is considered ... path-planning riddles rigorously but quickly enough to be useful in real-world deployments. “Because ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
than a blank slate. This should allow them to use less harmful X-ray exposures. The team plans to test ... for the environment or task encountered by the agent, using memory retrieval to improve ... systems, leveraging knowledge about how the brain encodes and retrieves information from memory. It aims to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-led-projects-awarded-muri-funding-2023MechE Students Win 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
a startup, Kinnos Inc., to develop Highlight, an easy-to-use powdered additive that can be mixed into ... The gloves are lightweight, compact, and worn on the hands, but ergonomic enough to use as an everyday ... to collegiate inventors. Each winning team of undergraduates received $10,000, and each graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2016-lemelson-mit-student-prizeA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
really demonstrate how vision and touch can be useful together, it’s necessary to build a full robotic ... Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, ... organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from electronics assembly to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. The capsule, which can be customized to ... using 3-D-printing technology, could be deployed to deliver drugs to treat a variety of diseases, ... Mechanical Engineering, where he will be joining the faculty in 2019. These devices could also be used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
grand challenge goal is to create these tissues for therapeutic use and, ultimately, at the whole organ ... in 3D printed components for use in soft electronics, robotics, and life sciences. “How you make ... when she joined Harvard to start her own lab focused on bioprinting and biological engineering. How ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
Image: Chelsea Turner (using images provided by the researchers) The key to the team’s nimble design lies ... a printer’s speed: how fast a printer can move its printhead, how much force a printhead can apply to ... a material to push it through the nozzle, and how quickly the printhead can transfer heat to melt a material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
trained in how to evaluate the patient and adjust the timing and pressure of the pumping accordingly. The ... of functions that the device would need to perform to be both safe and useful, says one of the team ... Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
captured from power plants. Rather than attempting to convert carbon dioxide to specialized chemicals using ... Currently, power plants equipped with carbon capture systems generally use up to 30 percent of the ... lithium-based batteries, looked into whether carbon-dioxide-capture chemistry could be put to use to make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
administering medication to astronauts. 2018 MERE SS_08 1024.jpg Postdoctoral fellow Aaron Persad shows how ... a trip most people never will experience — orbiting the Earth aboard a space shuttle. “I’m trying to ... determine how liquids behave in space,” explained Persad, a postdoctoral fellow working with Rohit Karnik, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
alternative approach that can enable the dose to be personalized to the patient. Their system measures how ... which is used to treat colorectal cancers, among others. The drug is typically infused over a 46-hour ... infusion. “Using body surface area to calculate a chemotherapy dose, we know that two people can have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapySmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
much, or how little, automation an individual site uses remains up to the farmer. In its first season of ... consumption by 20 to 60 percent when compared to conventional flood irrigation methods. “Agriculture uses 70 ... irrigation controller that optimizes system energy and water use, enabling farmers to operate the system on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9DLow-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet
hydrogel that is typically used in diapers to soak up moisture. When the hydrogel is wet, the material ... too embarrassed to report themselves that a change is needed. “Diapers are used not just for babies, ... RFID tag development, with the goal of using them to connect our physical world with the internet. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-%E2%80%9Csmart%E2%80%9D-diaper-can-notify-caregiver-when-it%E2%80%99s-wetMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
on ways to combine theory and practice, such as Kimon Drakopoulos’ use of AI algorithms to guide how ... solution to tie up the loose ends of my thesis. It amazed me how powerful computation can be toward ... finds successful matches. “If the match isn’t correct, our algorithm will know how to continue trying ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
“Whenever you start using or trying to exploit the oceans’ resources, you have to make sure you know ... kilometers in diameter every 75 seconds. Compared to previous techniques, it used low-frequency sound waves ... in oceans so vast, how do researchers choose the best routes for their robots? To answer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownFaculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.
engineer, this is biology. How can I make a difference?’ “But then I got to thinking about blood flow, as ... to see how the force of the blood flow not only changes the cells’ orientation to align with the flow ... for understanding how fluid flow and cell biology worked together to modulate arterial disease seems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-c-forbes-dewey-jrUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
density makes them ideal for use in everything from cellphones to electric vehicles, which require large ... expertise in fluid dynamics to study how deep-sea mining could affect surrounding ecosystems. Meeting ... and the University of California at San Diego are leading the quest to understand how the sediment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a novel way to test tumors for drug susceptibility. Using a device ... that suggest susceptibility to targeted cancer drugs. However, useful markers have been found for only ... in part by a test that has been used for decades to choose antibiotics to treat bacterial infections. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugsRobotics in the 21st Century
back to the police about how many people there are, whether they are carrying weapons, and so on, ... direct itself to a dangerous scene where it could, for example, use an ax to break down a door or find ... down using an ax, there is the question of what strike pattern to use,” says Professor Kim. “It becomes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
system. carbon-capturebluegreendie.gif Here, dyes are used to reveal the concentration levels of carbon ... problems through the use of a gas-attracting surface placed in close proximity to the catalyst material. ... surface and just bounces away. The treated surface is used in the new work to keep the carbon dioxide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systems