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Six from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ... Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public ... technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2025Startup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsThis 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... Engineering at MIT. “Our design concept is to provide older adults having balance impairment with robotic ... Bolli, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “All the demographic trends ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallA technique for more effective multipurpose robots
a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ... Wang, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... closing valves. MIT-SangbaeKim-A1-1024.jpg “Say there are toxic gases leaking in a building, and you need ... to fuse the two main projects in his lab: the MIT Cheetah, a four-legged, 70-pound robot that runs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsMore than a meal
With closed restaurants and collapsed traditional markets, MIT Sea Grant applied Covid-19 Rapid ... uncertainty. Seeking solutions, MIT Sea Grant first connected with the New England Fisheries Management ... unique strength in the MIT Sea Grant Program is our Advisory Group that has established and maintains ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-mealRichard Li
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ... by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an antibacterial, ... “This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now have the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/richard-liFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
perform. MIT-Svelte-Finger-02-PRESS.jpg A breakdown of the components that make up the finger-like touch ... sensor. Image: Courtesy of the researchers MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that ... manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robotsFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
Graphene Devices and Systems, and the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Additive manufacturing, also called ... Michigan and MIT, include: The Robofurnace, an automated system for high-throughput synthesis of ... with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
background. Now, engineers at MIT have developed a small, mirrored chip that helps to produce dark-field ... Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But when Cecile made the first surfaces we ... 23, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT engineers including Associate Professor Mathias ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesWhere to Grab Space Debris
a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems this month, they will report the results of a set of experiments ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ...
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