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Robotic palm mimics human touch
that uses red, green, and blue LEDs to light an object, and a camera to capture reflections. This ... critical experiment, she says, was to examine how well the different palm configurations could envelop and ... Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has rethought the oft-overlooked palm. The new design uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-palm-mimics-human-touchHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
aerospace-tech dress shirts to socks that use coffee grounds to mitigate odor. In April, the startup launched the ... to make blazers, by using thermoset yarn that shrinks to size, among other innovations. The first ... fleece onto flimsy trash bags. Soon, he graduated to sticking ripstop — material used for rain jackets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniTwo MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
to students getting to experience the world and seeing how that affects their next steps as they go ... Arts & Sciences Boston/New England Chapter. Both “ We Are the Forest ” and “ No Drop to Spare ... director of wind and jazz ensembles and senior lecturer in music, to combine Brazilian music and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsResponsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future
sustainability and environmental justice,” they say. “Engineers need to think about how technology fits into the ... was around 10 — was a jarring introduction to how human activity can impact the health of the planet. ... a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) — an underwater drone slated to collect water samples from beneath a sheet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/responsive-design-meets-responsibility-planet%E2%80%99s-futureSylas Horowitz
environmental justice,” they say. “Engineers need to think about how technology fits into the greater societal ... introduction to how human activity can impact the health of the planet. Their first interest was art — painting ... a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) — an underwater drone slated to collect water samples from beneath a sheet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitz3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future
Research Group. We also need to model how the barrier would change sediment transport and coastal ... Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the ... contributions in fluid mechanics with applications to coastal engineering. Mei has worked on barrier systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-engineering-hurricane-barriers-futureGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
building go-karts. Eventually, Guan and Bercu decided to use their experience to start a drone company. ... planes loaded with hundreds of pounds of pesticides and fly extremely close to the ground at upward of ... aviation is as dangerous as it is vital to America’s farms. Unfortunately, fatal crashes are common. Now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
been used for decades to make large pipes. In that process, steel sheets are fed into one side of ... automated — using about one-tenth the labor of traditional construction — and uses steel to make the whole ... elements using thousands of bolts. “If you were to design a 500-foot tower to get strong winds, based on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
study, the researchers developed a way to test freestanding metamaterials, to observe how the materials ... how far apart the pillars must be in order to support the material at either end while allowing the ... impact on camera and studied the resulting images, frame by frame, to see how the projectiles penetrated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsNeed a water filter? Peel a tree branch
preventing them from spreading in the wood. “Plants have had to figure out how to filter out bubbles but ... fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ... drinking water a day — enough to quench the thirst of a typical person. In a paper published this week in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-water-filter-peel-tree-branchThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
the MIT Bike Lab was born. "The idea is to empower people to learn how to fix their own bike so ... that they are motivated to use biking as a reliable transportation method," says Champenois. The ... Bianca Champenois SM ’22 learned to ride a bike when she was 5 years old. She can still hear her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
taught him how to use several tools that were none-so-unfamiliar by the time he saw them in lab as an ... students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... father taught me in simple terms when I was a kid,” says Wilson. “It’s interesting to see it now from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-spencer-wilson-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9915Departmental News & Awards- Summer 2019
machine-learning and sensory hardware to develop a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga. The ... Solutions grants: a project led by Professor A. John Hart that uses sensors to detect soil nutrient levels ... to improve the performance of perovskites in solar cells – bringing the materials closer to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/departmental-news-awards-summer-2019Student robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers
a grappling hook. The robot also used a multistage lift to raise a 2-kilogram weight, and a spring-loaded hook ... around a unifying theme. From “Star Wars” to “Back to the Future” and “Willy Wonka,” the theme is ... points. On Thursday, May 5, the event featured its most poignant theme to date: “Legacy,” a celebration of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-robot-competition-honors-legacy-late-beloved-professor-woodie-flowersTranslating MIT research into real-world results
on identifying their potential markets and learn to focus on how their technology can meet the needs ... the fundamentals of how to transform their work into commercial products and companies. As part of the ... a J-WAFS Solutions grant in 2021 to commercialize cold-storage chambers that use evaporative cooling to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/translating-mit-research-real-world-resultsMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
how their careers have progressed since returning to Saudi Arabia. “It was very inspiring to hear ... temperatures and studied their behavior in the hopes of determining how to improve temperature stability. ... Women, these Saudi female scientists and engineers with PhDs are invited to spend one year conducting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaSix from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
use of a microwave antenna. As the first engineer assigned to the rocket, he had the honor of naming ... studies at Stanford Law School. She plans to use her legal education to contribute to financial regulation ... and technology law. Her PhD research demonstrates how algorithms in use today can be made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-named-2021-knight-hennessy-scholarsDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
used to illuminate transparent features such as biological tissues and cells, in images taken with very ... reconstruct transparent objects in images taken with plenty of light. Now his team is the first to use deep ... objects can be revealed in different ways, but it usually requires you to use ample light,” Barbastathis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkEngineering fantasy into reality
franchises. “I thought I could use what I learned from Imagineering and teach undergrads how to build robots ... space shuttle program was the main transport for astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). ... drive to JSC to check out the center’s public exhibits and presentations on human space exploration. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityErik Ballesteros
franchises. “I thought I could use what I learned from Imagineering and teach undergrads how to build robots ... space shuttle program was the main transport for astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). ... drive to JSC to check out the center’s public exhibits and presentations on human space exploration.For ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesteros