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The (robotic) doctor will see you now

fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... these systems,” Chai says.   The MIT team is continuing to develop sensors that can obtain vital sign ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ...

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Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ...

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Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone

hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ... Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ...

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A. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care

National Society of Black Engineers chapter, and at MIT, he has served as treasurer for the Black Graduate ... between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company, primarily promotes the application ... An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ...

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How to float your coffee creamer

able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... Foundation and MIT Energy Initiative through the Energy Fellowship Program. Monday, November 13, 2017 ...

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MechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life

renowned MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the namesake of MIT’s Edgerton Center. A visionary in ... engineering major, Young fell in love with water at an early age. But Mission 31 gave her an ... deeper,” says Young. “It was my home for 15 days, and now I am dedicated to using my skills and engineering ...

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Developing community around design

currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... When the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) — a major interdisciplinary ... center housed in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) — was announced last spring, it ...

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Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans

WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ...

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Students demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition

ticket). 2.007.2.043_1024.jpg John Taylor Novak, a mechanical engineering junior, navigates his robot ... engineers; we can do better than pure imagination,” said Winter as he kicked off the event. “We can do ... In one task, students were scored based on how much kinetic energy they could put into a spinning ...

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A creative desire, and the grit to get it done

MIT’s Human Systems Lab and Little Devices Lab. Her 2019 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ... When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... engineering and creative writing. Photo Credit: Ian MacLellan Then, in the spring semester of her first year, ...

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Building bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community

In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian ... Ukraine in February 2022, Maria Khotimsky, senior lecturer in Russian in MIT Global Languages, recalls ... seeing tremendous student and faculty action around MIT. Khotimsky got to know MIT’s Ukrainian students ...

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A microchip for metastasis

Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ...

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Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration

engineering at MIT; S. Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at ... researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh ... University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of Alloy Structures (METALS) program. ...

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Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ...

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Three professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows

professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Engineering Systems Division. Yang was the ... build the mechanical engineering and product design community at MIT. By continuing to support DPD [the ... Three MIT professors have been selected as 2017 MacVicar Faculty Fellows, awarded for exceptional ...

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J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants

managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. John H. Lienhard V, director of J-WAFS and the ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ...

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An artistic approach to designing medical devices

including pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. In her time at MIT, she has expanded her horizon ... a senior studying mechanical engineering, has combined her passion for art and engineering through her work ... tunnels beneath MIT’s campus through the Borderline Tunnel Project. Later on, she collaborated with UA ...

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Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma

Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT collaborators aims to restore ... the body, and then passively letting the patient’s system integrate the implant. These lab-engineered ... engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, implanting it in ...

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Leading business past dollars and cents

aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ... Copy of Copy of 3.jpg At a recent panel discussion hosted by the MIT Leaders for Global Operations, ... her experience in the MIT LGO program strengthened her voice. Knowing she became successful by ...

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Orienteering for robots

student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... be exploited in future autonomous systems.” Friday, April 4, 2014 Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office ... Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ...

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