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How to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand
options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... through sand, gravel, or other soft media can help engineers drive a rover over Martian soil, anchor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-push-wiggle-or-drill-object-through-sandNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ... one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Yoonji Kim, an assistant professor in the College of Art ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesWrinkle Predictions
Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... .edu Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ... also spoiled. MIT-Spoilage-Sensor-2-FISH-1024.jpg Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Sensor texture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationMIT Hyperloop Team Unveils its Pod
The MIT Hyperloop team unveiled its pod on Friday, May 13, to a large crowd at the MIT Museum in ... Hyperloop design competition in March of this year, the team of 30 MIT graduate students, 14 of which are in ... comprised of students from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-unveils-its-podA Renewable Future
mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies, ... mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies. ... Betar Gallant, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/renewable-futureThe environmental toll of disposable masks
Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior ... MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Adam Wentworth, a research engineer at Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who characterized the mechanical properties ... surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known ... Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsA graphene roll-out
who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... route to ultrathin membranes,” says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... squeezing the container. MIT-Slippery-Gels-1024.jpg A gel-like yield stress fluid, top, moves as a plug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... , a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Fog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the ... world’s driest regions. By David Chandler, MIT News Office Photo courtesy of researchers. In some of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyDriving a human-machine collaboration
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Is there a sort of future ... Guardian, is being refined at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where MIT Professor John Leonard is ... helping steer the group’s work, while on leave from MIT. At the MIT Mobility Forum on Friday, Leonard and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-human-machine-collaborationWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... as in engineering applications such as soft robots,” Zhao says. Other MIT authors on the paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ... Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competition“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... particles or droplets moving over them. MIT-Active-Surfaces-01.jpg Photo shows a water droplet sitting on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... Esther and Harold E. Edergton Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-finds