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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Mechanical Engineering PhD student Kiwan Wong, the lead author of a new paper describing the framework. “The ... mathematics, careful engineering, and a vision for robots that can safely interact with humans and delicate ... Environmental Engineering, and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-control-system-teaches-soft-robots-art-staying-safeRunning on Waste Heat
of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... motivation for me is really taking this basic research into the real world. I take great pride in that.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatSetting a new standard for hormone health
MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ... treated differently than clinical depression. “The stories that we hear are really what get me out of bed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-healthDesigning a revolution
Architecture and undergraduate students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Medina says the project ... who both graduated in the spring with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering, worked on getting ... and how the humanities can collaborate with engineering and architecture to build historical objects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-revolutionInternet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... impact this technology would have on the planet. “To me, saving the planet is sort of an existential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/internet-things-let-avatars-talk-each-otherMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of the study. ... MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityMIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science
and mechanical engineering at MIT. The rally kicked off a series of events that attracted more than ... Credit: Sarah Aprea Stand Up and Be Counted rally attendee and Course 20 senior Kira Buttrey Credit: Ceal ... patient and biomedical engineering student at Boston University. “The topic and purpose of the film is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-events-illuminate-critical-need-menstruation-scienceAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances ... of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The research was recently presented at the Learning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsStartup with MIT roots wins R&D 100 Award
measures the amount, type, and distribution of contaminants on filters used to reduce engine and vehicle ... (DPF). “After the seminar, Leslie talked to me about an idea he had regarding the potential use of ... Bromberg had a number of DPFs in his lab, left over from plasma experiments focused on making auto engines ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-mit-roots-wins-rd-100-awardGiving robots a sense of touch
a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering; Adelson; and ... area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchManufacturing a cleaner future
John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ... manufacturing technologies. Hart sees mechanical engineers as playing a crucial role in this transition. ... “Mechanical engineers can uniquely solve critical problems that require next generation hardware technologies, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-futurePioneering the future of materials extraction
Mechanical Engineering, as vice president of research and development; Daniel Bregante, from the Department ... of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) in 2020. 0624-SiTration_team-all-1.jpg The SiTration ... support, early on — those became the most pressing activities on Smith’s agenda. “What’s most fun to me ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionSolving the puzzle of ice age climates
mechanism behind these changes for 200 years. “We have all these scattered pieces of information about ... exact same amount in every ice age. “To me, that means that all the events that co-occurred must be ... possibilities. “What it really does is tune me in to the sea ice and biochemical conditions that I need to see at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-puzzle-ice-age-climatesA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
MIT’s Karl van Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapySaving the radome
points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... remote radio astronomy experiments for the Physics Junior Laboratory (J-Lab), a foundational course in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 when he went to ... Make it stick Of course, farmers don’t spray pesticides for fun. A 2021 study found that if farmers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/farmers-use-60-billion-pesticides-each-year-2-mit-scientists-have-developed-newTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
pollution monitoring system is the capstone project of recently graduated New Engineering Education ... the other projects we were looking at,” says Trautman, who majored in electrical engineering and ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesWilhem Hector
experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... to MIT for having inspired and supported me through that 17-month long journey,” he says. The initial ... and so that Haitian kids could learn basic engineering skills before going to college. “We are working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/wilhem-hectorSustainable and Global Development
Engineering for Sustainability, is intended for students interested in work on sustainability in the context ... of US industry or in other industrialized settings. The other track, in Engineering for International ... be coupled to the minor programs in Environmental Engineering Science or Applied International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/sustainable-and-global-developmentImmune action at a distance
a senior author of the study, Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... chemical engineering perspective?” says Rosenboom. The interdisciplinary team determined that the injected ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distance