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Giving robots a sense of touch
Automation last week. In one paper, Adelson’s group uses the data from the GelSight sensor to enable a robot ... everyday objects. In the other, Russ Tedrake’s Robot Locomotion Group at CSAIL uses GelSight sensors to ... deciding not only where and how hard to grasp them but how they will behave when moved, stacked, or laid on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchChecking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
all this equipment and how to streamline the experimental pipeline.” Zhu noted the increasing use of ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ... you might not all find in one lab,” Tadesse says. “So, we were brainstorming about how to miniaturize ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-toolDexter Ang
founded by Dexter Ang ’05, is using sensors to turn biopotentials on the skin into digital commands for ... inning — of what neural interfaces are going to be and how they are going to transform everything in the ... Pison’s current sensors detect the electrical signals the brain uses to communicate with the body’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0Solid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
types of tissues and used software to map triangular connections between a tissue’s cells. In contrast ... the second illustrates how prone the material is to deforming. These two parameters, they found, were ... calculating the exact value of both parameters, compared to those of a perfect solid, and using those exact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsThe Quest for Clean Water
a lot of villagers had filters but weren’t using them regularly. I wanted to figure out how to improve ... the residents themselves. “We are in the field every six months trying to figure out how socioeconomic ... market and how they were working. “I went to villages and interviewed women’s groups, men’s groups, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-clean-waterMaking her way through MIT
has a smaller profile that would enable more people to use it. She notes, “The design itself is meant ... taught her how to plan and design for the most extreme cases of impact, often relying on intuition, ... her work day in lab designing and fabricating prosthetics, and devotes her free time to personal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitTeaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation
see first-hand how the fundamentals they are learning apply to real-world scenarios. “A lot of ... instills in students is how to work with fellow students to achieve a goal. As student teams worked ... Course 2.00a has also armed Ramirez with a new perspective on how to approach the rest of his time at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-first-year-students-fundamental-principles-through-creationFour researchers with MIT ties earn Schmidt Science Fellowships
fellowship, she will enlist systems biology to explore how the nervous system encodes and processes sensory ... physiologic processes. “I'm really interested in understanding how we can use physiological monitoring ... the fellows program aims to bring together the world’s brightest minds “to solve society’s toughest ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-mit-ties-earn-schmidt-science-fellowshipsModerating Extremes in Building Design
the key is knowing when to do it. It’s that education of how to optimally run a system or prove the ... for that. One option is to use aerogel. It’s not a new technology, but, in conjunction with MIT ... to use aerogel for those purposes,” he says. “We were able to combine the thermal insulating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-designJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
gathering and making available more precise data on how water quality is affected by how the pipe is used ... powered using renewable energy sources such as solar or wind. Designed to be implemented in ... that uses the natural evaporation of water to create a cool and humid environment that prevents rot and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grants2.009 lights up the stage
The device can be mounted to an indoor climbing wall and used in place of a belayer — a person who ... tank outside Kresge, where a scuba diver wearing Rho used a handheld device to float up and down in the ... anything”: a 2.009-decorated flamethrower. To roaring chants of “Use it!” Wallace promised that he would ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-lights-stageNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... designed to create intricate tilting patterns throughout an array. Such patterns may be useful in directing ... depending on how you design the magnetic field, you could get the pillars to close in like a flower. You ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairHarnessing the speed of light
approaches. Narrowing the target One of Fang’s key discoveries is finding how to beat the diffraction of ... circuits using more manageable and less expensive equipment. Currently, to produce nanoscale features on ... “We could use graphene as our information highway,” he says. One big question that remains is how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightSeaPerch, a robot with a mission
module that can be used on its own; a n autonomy module that the students can use to construct ... leadership of RoboNation, SeaPerch continues to thrive with competitions around the world. These competitions ... introduce challenging real-world problems to foster creative solutions. Some recent topics have included ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-missionNicholas Mabey
the confidence to tackle big difficult problems by using both quantitative methods and a qualitative ... others might see a political mine field, Nicholas Mabey SM ’93 sees opportunity. “We have to design ... Initiative. The result was a unified approach to harnessing wind power in the North Seas. This is just one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nicholas-mabeyAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
proponent of using evaporative cooling to reduce post-harvest waste. “And if refrigerated cold rooms aren’t ... cooling room and joined forces with Glicksman to explore using forced, instead of passive, airflow to cool ... farmers in Kenya, they came up with the idea to use active evaporative cooling with a used shipping ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designWater world
significantly affect fluid motion. To fully understand how climate works, researchers at MIT say students must ... experiment of their own, using the Weather in a Tank setup to illustrate the effects of currents in the ... experiments into museums, middle schools and high schools. "I use the experiments as a way to introduce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-worldMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
most use pricey optical components to detect the biomarkers. They also capture only a small number of ... researchers wanted to shrink components of the magnetic-bead-based assay, which is often used in labs, onto an ... biomarkers or blood samples in parallel. Different antibodies and enzymes can be used in separate channels to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesPowered by the sun
a send-off for how far they want to go. Seventeen hundred miles, to be exact, from Omaha, Nebraska to Bend, ... hours of agonizing discussion, the team decided to forfeit their entry fee and use their time to prepare ... car performs and how we perform as a team. If we get a flat, how quickly do we respond to that? Who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunMIT MechE DEI Community Values
accountability (M&H 20-21). We commit to conducting our work honestly and ethically, and using our privilege ... improvement. MechE, as a whole, will also use its position as a world-class program to lead by example and ... encourage our peer institutions to uphold similar values. Personal Competencies Understanding of how class, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/mit-meche-dei-community-values