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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleWith “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 ... David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and the event’s longtime master of ceremonies, who ... of what engineers in a product development firm might go through to design a new product. Students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Chello%E2%80%9D-its-theme-2009-returns-stageInternet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/internet-things-let-avatars-talk-each-other“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ... twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cinactive%E2%80%9D-pill-ingredients-could-raise-dose-your-medicationInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ... box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodies“Robot, make me a chair”
Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... an effort to make design faster and more accessible for non-experts, researchers from MIT and ... toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DUS Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance
heart. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing has been a part of our DNA since the ... creation of our first lab in 1874 with the donation of a steam engine—all the way to 1977, when MechE ... Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-manufacturing-modern-day-renaissanceThe Art of Measuring a Material Function as it Flows
Mechanics Micro and Nanotechnology Innovation Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Grad Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/art-measuring-material-function-it-flows“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... blind. The 90-pound mechanical beast — about the size of a full-grown Labrador — is intentionally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesStudent product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more ... and music-filled set of final class presentations in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, were designed to assist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-funA robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightA new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports
lab of Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. She studied thermal ... in metallurgy and hydrogen production in the lab of Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical ... and steel, we are completely reliant on global trade mechanisms and geopolitics remaining the way they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-steel-could-reduce-america%E2%80%99s-reliance-importsMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Toyota Professor of EECS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the ... 1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsAlumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13
a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... mechanics concepts I learned throughout my master’s and PhD coursework relates very well to what I’m doing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-thomas-ober-sm-%E2%80%9810-phd-%E2%80%9813John Lewandowski
properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiMobilizing across borders to address global challenges
Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT, had a similar ... essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and ... fund recipient and MIT professor of architectural history and theory Mark Jarzombek. “The insights and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesThree graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering students — Vasileios Georgiadis SM '14, Kyle Miller SM '14, and Leon Faison SM '14 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-graduate-students-honored-hydrofoil-researchBig data dreams for tiny technologies
small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ...
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