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Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ... sea where missing objects or people are likely to be. MIT-Rescue-Algorithm-01_1024.jpg A new ... MIT-developed search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters. The method may help quickly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ... work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ... time, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have cooled a large, human-scale object to close to its motional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateDesigning exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
chemical anomaly associated with the annual ice-cover retreat. MIT_VICTORIA-PRESTON_01-1024.jpg Victoria ... Preston, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI joint program, is helping to design robots that can independently ... a joint program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her co-advisors, Anna Michel and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... include MIT postdoc Shaoting Lin, along with Guoying Gu, Xiangyang Zhu, and collaborators at Shanghai Jiao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlNew gels could help the medicine go down
easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... collaborator on the work, which appears in Nature Communications. MIT postdocs William Whyte and Debkalpa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterTechnique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
a large scale, especially with single-cell resolution, but a team of MIT researchers has now found a way ... a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. MIT-CellDensity-01-press_1024x768.jpg The ... Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead author is MIT Research Scientist Weida (Richard) Wu. Measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-stateGiving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and ... enable a robot to manipulate smaller objects than was previously possible. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ... build it.” I_102223-AG-MIT-Motorcycle-0027.jpg Using an on-board logging computer, Electric Vehicle Team ... team, which has been part of MIT since 2005, this vehicle will not be entering races or competitions but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenMIT Blackjack Team Shares Tips, Stories
Former members of the MIT Blackjack Team—“the team that proved that brains can, in fact, beat the ... house,” as Jon Hirschtick ’83, SM ’83 says—reunited at MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts, ... a winning enterprise. Among the takeaways? One small purse can hold $70,000. Five former members of the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-blackjack-team-shares-tips-storiesCan an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?
lights and more than 100 origami robots that can crawl, swim, and blossom like flowers. A team from MIT ... and Shuhei Miyashita, and members of MIT Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab, including ... undergraduates Debra Ajilo and Negin Abdolrahim Poorheravi. mit-csail-robot-garden_0.jpg A robotic garden ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessibleResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... | MIT News Office yellow Collaboration International tomp@mit.edu Horizontal Researchers unravel secrets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesA Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... at MIT. “If we can make a knee that delivers similar performance to a $50,000 knee for a few hundred ... the National Science Foundation. Friday, July 31, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way. MIT-Quantum-Big-Data.JPG This ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ... and the National Science Foundation. Sunday, January 24, 2016 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... Nature Communications. MIT-Phonon-Scattering.jpg In their experiments, the team used precisely timed ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ... Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... bacteria remained alive for more than an hour afterward. MIT-Rain-Bacteria_1024.jpg A raindrop, splashing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsA new way to find better battery materials
storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say. MIT ... MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and institutions in Tokyo and Munich. Their findings were reported ... The team included Hao-Hsun Chang at MIT; Douglas Abernathy, Dipanshu Bansal, and Olivier Delaire at ...
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