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MIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
In spring 2018, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) awarded nine grants totaling $1,350,000 through ... economics, and have drawn from all five MIT schools and 28 departments, labs, and centers. Seed grant ... recipients are first-time awardees — including four researchers early in their careers at MIT. The chemistry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-awards-nine-seed-fund-grants-early-stage-energy-research-0MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... Krebs and his colleagues explored the robot MIT-Manus as a tool for evaluating patient improvement over ... time. The robot, developed by the team at MIT’s Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsA Mechanical Engineering Rite of Passage at MIT
increasingly and passionately promoted and embraced around the world. Of course, at MIT — particularly in the ... MIT was founded by scientist and educator William Barton Rogers, who had a different idea about how to ... educate and learn. He founded MIT to teach not only the ability to think critically but also how to apply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-rite-passage-mitCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced that MIT D-Lab has won the National Design ... a tremendous example of MIT’s mission to serve the world,” comments Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT ... the world. From MIT D-Lab’s work to address the daily challenges of poverty through design to Open ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-honors-mit-d-lab-national-design-awardMIT students' works redefine human-AI collaboration
style. That’s the idea behind “Be the Beat,” one of several projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 ... Credits: Be the Beat “Be the Beat,” by Ethan Chang, an MIT mechanical engineering and design student, and ... Zhixing Chen, an MIT mechanical engineering and music student, is an AI-powered boombox that suggests ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-works-redefine-human-ai-collaborationNavy officer deepens her engineering and leadership skills at MIT
of expertise as a graduate student at MIT — and a new approach to technical leadership in the Daniel ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “My mom was laying down the foundation for me, showing me what it truly meant ... a process of self-discovery at MIT. Allison realized that she had grown passionate about engineering during ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navy-officer-deepens-her-engineering-and-leadership-skills-mitMIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga
In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently ... a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the robot demonstrates something that’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-combines-vision-and-touch-learn-game-jengaRobots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
researchers have been analyzing intensely ever since. If they’d only had help from some MIT robots, the ... Photo: Tony Pulsone On Thursday evening, students of MIT’s popular class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing ... to machined head, in the course’s annual robot competition, held in the ice rink at MIT’s Johnson ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionMIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
MIT engineers have developed a spring-like device that could be used as a basic skeleton-like module ... compared with other previous device designs. 1024_Muscle-Flex-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed ... Design at MIT. “We are giving roboticists a new set of rules to make powerful and precise muscle-powered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-flexible-%E2%80%9Cskeletons%E2%80%9D-soft-muscle-powered-robotsTo design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
MIT engineers have found that one filter feeder has evolved to sift food in ways that could improve ... ray’s gills. The MIT team has shown that the dimensions of these plates may allow for incoming plankton ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-better-water-filters-mit-engineers-look-manta-raysMIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
repeated in pop-science videos: An egg is strongest when dropped vertically, on its ends. But when MIT ... first-year orientation in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Every year we follow ... the data — it was really unclear.” MITStudentResearch_DynamicTesting1024.jpg MIT engineering students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-finding-sideways-stronger2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: 2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT Teaser Text: In this ...
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