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Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread

MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... engineering, Dandekar has spent the past few months developing the model as part of the final project in class ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ...

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Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ... engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this technique. Amice ...

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Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds

out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ... of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13

a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... experience here. I work in a fairly small group of eight or 10 engineers. We are all working on our own small ...

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“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” ...

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Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale

Each semester, the machine shop in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity churns out ... complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... While a yo-yo might seem like an unusual choice for an engineering class, according to John Hart, ...

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Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis Teaser Text:  MIT ... src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqrGhMQ2Mco" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage ... MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage redesigns the Jaipur Foot to create a high-value prosthesis at ...

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