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Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsA robot that senses hidden objects
been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ... Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ... Mechanical Engineering. Other co-authors include Junshan Leng, a research engineer at Harvard University, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsA flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... forward was essential for system adoption by emergency responders. In addition, the team had to design the ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... Department of Energy and a Lindemann Trust Fellowship. Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Associate Professor Rohit Karnik, have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneResearchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past
biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ... such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... the senior authors of the study and the director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center. “If there ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-hope-make-needle-pricks-diabetics-thing-pastBasic training
A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ... to 10 of MIT’s makerspaces; pairing with a maker community; and up to $100 in “makerbucks,” a stipend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingLearners today, leaders tomorrow
who completed the same program, was inspired to apply for MIT’s PhD program in civil engineering, and ... online event hosted by MIT Open Learning. With Vice President for Open Learning Professor Sanjay Sarma ... conjunction with departments, labs, and centers all over MIT: DEDP is offered jointly through the Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learners-today-leaders-tomorrowBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... move to cell therapy comes after Parietti’s small team of mostly MIT-trained roboticists and engineers ... founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesTargeting Product Design for the Developing World
microentrepreneurs’ needs can increase a company’s chances of succeeding in an emerging market In a new MIT study, ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, combed through the ... choosing a system for drip irrigation — an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/targeting-product-design-developing-worldTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ... human adult. The team engineered the robot as simply a torso and two legs, and designed the system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingCultivators of Research
MIT, which is characterized by interdisciplinary work in design, including product design, engineering ... participating in their research journey from the beginning to end. For MIT graduate students, the Committed to ... engineering, Kendall Rohsenow Professor, and professor of mechanical engineering. She works in the area of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivators-researchArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsMIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
Laboratory; Don Fredette of The Boston Home; Michael Buchman of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... During the event this spring, MIT students develop technological solutions to problems faced by Greater ... a technology that suits those needs," says MIT graduate student Jaya Narain, who co-directed the event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsDroplets Made to Order
New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... engineering Evelyn Wang, former postdocs Rishi Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Wang ... Unlike ordinary round droplets, these can be engineered to have a base that’s square, hexagonal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... Engineering. The depth-dependence of this phenomenon had not previously been known. But even after the collapse ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesWith “Hello!” as its theme, 2.009 returns to the stage
for the final presentations of 2.009, MIT’s popular Product Engineering Processes course. After going ... of what engineers in a product development firm might go through to design a new product. Students ... to new and meaningful experiences. 2.009 Collage.jpg Top Left: Outside on the MIT Kresge Oval, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Chello%E2%80%9D-its-theme-2009-returns-stageSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsUntangling How Cables Coil
theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ... can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coilAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ... scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ... Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesFrom large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. ... She is also the MIT dean for digital learning, leading MIT Open Learning’s business and research and ...
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