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Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsRobo-picker grasps and packs
stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packs“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... ocean,” says Andrea Prosperetti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airMIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga
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-jengaNew parameters in graduate mentoring
Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ... Sikes: Teaching beyond the lab Professor Hadley D. Sikes of the Department of Chemical Engineering is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesLow-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet
a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sen, Kantareddy, and their colleagues at ... open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-%E2%80%9Csmart%E2%80%9D-diaper-can-notify-caregiver-when-it%E2%80%99s-wetModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ... also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
everyday life, and storytelling for science and engineering communication. A glimpse at the guts of ... Engineering to offer a three-module course on the basics of and resources for human subjects research, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsBig data dreams for tiny technologies
Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. “We can account for things like drug absorption, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The work, reported today in the journal Science Advances, shows that ... Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, who was not associated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectGiving robots better moves
Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
allowing new materials and compounds to be “reverse-engineered” simply by inputting a set of desired ... investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the paper are Grace Zhong, Joy Collins, Siddartha Tamang, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ... Engineering. Oil and water Looking for diseased cells and pathogens in fluid samples is an exercise in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, who was not involved with this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robotsRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) through the Center for Complex Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humans