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Teaching robots how to move objects
engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... robotic systems they built were tasked with removing items from bins and placing them into boxes. For ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsTwelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
engineering workshops in Israel with MIT's Global Teaching Labs. For her Fulbright, Stein will conduct ... Grants will support their research, graduate study, and teaching abroad in 2021-22. Twelve MIT ... granted MIT awarded 2021 Fullbright Fellowships. Photos courtesy of MIT News. Top Row: Jenny Chan, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twelve-mit-awarded-2021-fulbright-fellowshipsHyunwoo Yuk
accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, Yuk received an email from a new faculty ... In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the ... surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk has used his expertise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hyunwoo-yukFrom “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
at MIT, Katz studied mechanical engineering, opting for the flexible Course 2A degree program with ... engineering at MIT, Katz continued working in Kim’s lab and developed solutions for actuators in robotics. ... Kim’s lab as part of the MIT UROP – or Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. For his UROP ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccheetah-noids%E2%80%9D-humanoidsHow MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations
and an engineer. “The technology and engineering education that I received at MIT plays directly into ... hours later — you likely have three graduates of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program to ... Amazon, applauding the program’s uniquely multidimensional focus on tech, engineering, and leadership, all ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-lgo-alumni-are-powering-amazon%E2%80%99s-global-operationsAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended ... and fellow Course 2 (mechanical engineering) graduates Braden Knight ’16, Luke Schlueter ’16, and ... spyce-restaurant-robotic-kitchen-mit-alumni-founders-daniel-bouloud-1024.jpg The Spyce team (left to right) includes Luke Schlueter ’16; Michael Farid ’14, SM ’16; Kale Rogers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsMIT announces 2023 Bose Grants for daring new research
professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Photos: Gretchen Ertl; Jimmy Day/MIT Media Lab ... MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support ... bold research projects across diverse areas of study including engineering, animal behavior, and human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2023-bose-grants-daring-new-researchNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, a visiting scientist in MIT’s Department of ... MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaNew African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT
desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT ... Commencement 2022 marked a milestone in MIT’s history, as Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22 became the first ... mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-african-and-african-diaspora-studies-major-takes-mitA cool new way to study gravity
Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... this lies in preparing mechanical systems that are massive enough to feel gravity, yet quiet enough ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityDouble-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-suturesStephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ... vibrations and rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stephen-h-crandall-professor-emeritus-meche-dies-92MIT researchers and collaborators work to prepare manufacturers for future crises
MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni — helped local manufacturers produce more than 9 million ... director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the MIT Industrial Performance Center, John ... Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-and-collaborators-work-prepare-manufacturers-future-crisesRobo-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 ... system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packsAlex Hattori
not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriLeslie's legacy
After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September 1974. She started as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leslies-legacyHow to make hydrogels more injectable
a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableNASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as ... Engineering, gained skills in engineering and communication, and was active on the MIT cycling team. After ... earning a doctorate in biological engineering from MIT, she taught bioengineering at the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-selects-three-mit-alumni-astronaut-trainingHistoric Inspirations
passion for design and engineering to one specific MechE course – a course that has also inspired ... generations before them. “Classes like 2.007 are how engineers are forged,” says Weizer, who took 2.007 ... MIT, having participated in high school FIRST Robotics competitions, a program co-founded by Flowers. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/historic-inspirationsTool Designer Puts “Mind and Hand” to Work
engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design engineering has showed him the true power ... Slice_09_04_25_Brown_credit Beth Cholst '16_1024.jpg Brown's work as a manager of design engineering at Milkwaukee ... Tool showed him the true power of MIT's motto: "mind and hand." Credit: Beth Cholst ...
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