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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... the engineers threw 150 balls at the robot, one after the other, from across the ping pong table. The ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the  MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ...

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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water

engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. The Earth’s atmosphere contains millions of ... origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water ... source, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid. The team ...

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Adhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater

weeks. MIT_Underwater-Adhesives-01-press_0_1024x683.jpg MIT engineers have devised a novel adhesive ... underpinnings of how to engineer a synthetic adhesive system,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ...

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... big and small,” says Eric Verploegen PhD ’08, former research engineer in MIT’s D-Lab and founder of ... training to participants across New England. Trainings are open to researchers, engineers, scientists, and ...

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Faculty Promotions

informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... nanoscale to develop new concepts, devices, and systems with improved engineering performance. His group has ...

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Twelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships

Berkeley.  Abby Stein will graduate in June with a double major in physics and electrical engineering. At ... Tony Terrasa Bottom Row: Miki Hansen, Laura Huang.  Jenny Chan is a senior studying mechanical engineering. Growing up ... majoring in mechanical engineering. As the winner of the Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design ...

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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

used in fabrication of electrical engineering components to see how multiple pieces could be packaged ... Collaborative (MIT HEALS) and the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Biological Engineering, opened ... Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who is also ...

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MechE Students Win 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

3-D”). At the intersection of electrical engineering, computer science, and optics, Kadambi’s work has ... Undergraduate Team Winner. Kang, studying in Columbia’s School of Engineering, along with Jin and Tyan, formed ... Technology, $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Eat it!” Undergraduate Team Winner. Mechanical engineering students Rogers, ...

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Device that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K

Damak PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate and co-founder of Infinite Cooling, said in the ... requirements,” said co-founder and co-inventor Karim Khalil PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate. During ... [worldwide] into a low-cost desalination unit, saving $15 billion a year in electricity costs and saving ...

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Stamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation

professor of electrical engineering and computer science, along with researchers from Oxford University, the ... MIT engineers have found a way to directly “pinprick” microscopic holes into graphene as the ... Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ...

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Student teams design in the face of danger

device senses that it is about to contact a person’s hand, which it does by detecting the electrical ... mechanical engineering David Wallace, by presenting him with a pair of Eames-style chairs (one of them ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Teams of mechanical engineering ...

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A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence

Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Javier Ramos BS ... printing, and the following year the four engineers received support from the Deshpande Center to ... allow the company to print a broader range of engineering-grade materials. Johnson and Johnson, ...

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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ...

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Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection

slightly less lethal.” Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of ... of civil and environmental engineering Markus Buehler and graduate student Yiwen Hu, are being ... engineering, swung into action to see if the mechanical properties of the proteins played a role in their ...

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Synthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength

surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known ... Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ... starts with electrospinning, a fiber production technique that uses electric charges to draw ultrathin ...

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One giant leap for the mini cheetah

G. and Renee Finn Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, professor of mechanical engineering. Unlike other methods for controlling ... and Computer Science; Professor Sangbae Kim in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; and ...

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Study: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections

and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). ... particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ...

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AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who leads the HCI Engineering Group; co-senior author Megan Hofmann, assistant ...

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This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... that the sticky sensor can detect early signs of acute liver failure in rats. The engineers are working ...

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A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

Wang, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper ... on PoCo.       Wang’s coauthors include Jialiang Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate student; ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of CSAIL. The research will be ...

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