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Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation

student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulation

Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... pulse. The resulting mechanical vibrations generate sound waves that travel back up, where they can be ...

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Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow

study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... one were to observe the Unruh effect, “one would have observed a mechanism that is common to both ... stimulate the conventional, or resonant, effects, but we show that by engineering the trajectory of the ...

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New 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste

Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-waste

Testing new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”

Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ...

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Turning history of science into a comic adventure

departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering. “During crises like the ... member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES); and an associate professor in the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ...

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MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants

with mechanical engineering Research Scientist Micha Feigin-Almon, aim to study and generate a modeling ... engineers, performing artists and data scientists will work to change the way humans think, study, interact, ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Associate Professor Mohammad Alizadeh proposes using artificial ...

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Drug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... National Science Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s ... injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ...

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Study finds cells take out the trash before they divide

and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the ... Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering ... senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divide

Speedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces

SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... Guo SM ’22, and professor of mechanical engineering Sangbae Kim, the director of the Biomimetic ...   Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ...

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MADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice

Department of Mechanical Engineering, stressed the parameters of the contest — working within a $1,000 ... mechanical engineering, echoed Tarkanian’s comments, emphasizing the space set aside for innovative thinking. ... a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the ...

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Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

mechanical engineering, and the senior author of the study. This approach, described today in the journal ... MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... engineers have devised a new approach to studying complex diseases such as ulcerative colitis, which causes ...

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Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials

being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... microscopic metamaterials — materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with ... the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers report on a new way to quickly test ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materials

A New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene

says Hart, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “To make it ... understanding of graphene growth in concert with the mechanics of the nickel film,” he says. “We’ve shown this ... mechanism can work. Now it’s a matter of improving the attributes needed to produce a high-performance ...

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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light

graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ... layer is bonded tightly to a layer of a photonic crystal, which is precisely engineered so that when it ...

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Julien Barber

a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... largest known to exist, and represents a major engineering challenge. Tokamaks have typically used low ... mechanism for this kind of application. Barber’s work so far has focused on analyzing the thermal properties ...

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IdeaStream 2020 goes virtual

impact on the environment or society. Svetlana Boriskina of the Department of Mechanical Engineering said ... Department of Mechanical Engineering built on a statistic — only about 2 percent of applied pesticides adhere ... pandemic, the Hadley D. Sikes Lab had developed immunoassays using engineered binding proteins that ...

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Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact

postdocs Kyle Wilke, Zhengmao Lu, and Youngsop Song and professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang. ... Mechanical Engineering. The findings are so new there may be many real-world applications that the team ... demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ...

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Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program expands to invite Palestinian scholars

environment, but also very supportive,” says Youcef-Toumi, a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... our case, because students’ work is often so interdisciplinary, a student in mechanical engineering ... Engineering Systems. “In many other places, if a person is in math, they stay in math. If they are in ...

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