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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

the artistic style he uses to capture it. By learning from thousands of real underwater images, the ... into the photographic workflow, Ellenbogen will be able to use these tools to recover detail in turbid ... The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-ai-and-underwater-photography-reveal-hidden-ocean-worlds

3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming

can you say a little about how this paper came about, and why you see it as a call to action? A: This ... renewables so you can use it at a later time. This would allow renewable energy to penetrate the grid. If we ... More than 90 percent of the world’s energy use today involves heat, whether for producing ...

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Targeting Product Design for the Developing World

researchers drew up guidelines on how to design for emerging markets. In addition to designing products that ... also dig deeper into the elements of product design to understand how both large companies and small ... a dire need for products addressing problems such as access to clean water, sanitation, and electricity, ...

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

experiments and drew up a blueprint, which they say designers can use to optimize industrial cross-flow ... filtration in animals and how certain filter-feeding mechanisms might improve filters used in industry, such ... practical guidance on how to actually filter as the mobula ray does,” Mao offers. “You want to design ...

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Student Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)

magnetic. An interesting characteristic, to be sure, but one that unfortunately hadn’t amounted to much. ... John Hart’s research group. According to Lewandowski, a PhD student in Associate Professor John Hart’s ... a device that was able to balance that relationship and steer it in the right direction. The trick, he ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems

MechE and MIT community has been in its success,” says Mountz. “I used the MIT network to get everybody ... explains Mountz. “It was my job to study how we were picking orders out of the warehouse and find a way to ... “walk” to the boxes themselves. Here’s how it works. A warehouse employee logs into the pick station ...

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Mick Mountz

its success,” says Mountz. “I used the MIT network to get everybody I could think of to help us build ... my job to study how we were picking orders out of the warehouse and find a way to do it much faster. ... about what to fetch, from where, where to bring it, and how to get it there most efficiently. ...

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Alumni Spotlight: LiquiGlide

apply it to condiment bottles to prevent adhesion, using materials that are safe enough to eat. How does ... behind. But how much have you heard about the company itself, for whom the innovative condiment bottle ... coating is just the beginning? MechE Connects had a chance to sit down with Dave Smith (SM ’11), ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock

process is to use a collector device that acts as a vacuum and sucks up the top 10 or so centimeters of ... understand how these plumes would be transported throughout the ocean. How do you use your background in ... the plumes near where they’re discharged by the collector. That knowledge can be used as an input to ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

Covid-19 by using robots like Spot to take patients’ vital signs. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited ... the emergency department and whether patients are receptive to this mode of interaction. How have you ... used your background as both a physician and an engineer to develop these solutions? I’m a practicing ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traverso

Building robots to expand access to cell therapies

instance, the company’s system will contain multiple bioreactors, which are used to grow the genetically ... the only way to make those is with robots.” Multiply-Labs-01-Press (1024).jpg Multiply Labs is using ... will be able to manufacture many more products than we could do using manual processes in our clean ...

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A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

students, the GEL courses cover how to conduct multi-stakeholder negotiations, influence others, and provide ... to accommodate a range of student schedules. Workshops will cover topics like how to deliver ... actionable advice like how to check a company’s financial health before agreeing to come onboard. She also ...

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Basic training

their graduation from the training process, wherein students learn to use introductory maker technology. ... “This provides freshmen with the intro-level training that helps them prepare to use other spaces on ... create the space, the training program and learn how to run safe and effective training. Soon they will ...

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Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.

dataset for car aerodynamics that has been developed to date. The engineers envision it being used as an ... extensive library of realistic car designs, with detailed aerodynamics data that can be used to quickly ... his group explores ways in which AI and machine-learning tools can be used to enhance the design of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/want-design-car-future-here-are-8000-designs-get-you-started

Talking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

Using Machine Learning with Physical Models to Predict Extreme Events 2017 was one of the most ... hoping to improve our ability to predict extreme events like hurricanes. By using machine learning to ... How did you transition from naval architecture to the prediction extreme weather events? I was always ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-themistoklis-sapsis

Q&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys

tactile sensors and to use tactile feedback to skillfully manipulate objects. Our brains unconsciously ... idea that you could build something and then tell it what to do,” he says. “That was my first intense ... exposure to the magic combo of building and coding, and I was hooked.” After graduating from university in ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-alberto-rodriguez-teaching-robot-find-your-keys

To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds

“The performance of a lot of these models is explicitly tied to how statistically similar a generated ... and then use that to generate new, statistically similar content. The enormously popular ChatGPT is ... GAN — a model that has widely been used in image and text synthesis, and is tuned simply to generate ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-finds

Looking to space to cure osteoarthritis

head of MIT’s chemical engineering department, who had pioneered the use of nanoparticles to deliver ... is the anti-inflammatory dexamethasone, which also has been used successfully to treat breathing ... “in a dish” to simulate what happens in humans after a knee injury—using the microgravity environment ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritis

Startups take root in senior capstone class

the most useful takeaway for students interested in founding a company, according to Associate ... Professor Ellen Roche, is how to work on teams. “These projects provide students with an opportunity to work ... device developed by Encora Therapeutics uses vibrations to send signals to the brain that can help ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-class

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