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Giving robots better moves

’s Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ... That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which ... efficiency. MIT-Righthand-robotics-1024.jpg Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent ...

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Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses

a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ... pregnant each year. MIT-Monthly-Contraceptive-1024.jpg After being swallowed, the capsule unfolds and ...

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New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

Engineering at MIT, as well as research scientists Andrea Pavesi and Giulia Adriani, postdoc Majid Ebrahimi ... Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ...

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This salty gel could harvest water from desert air

MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ...

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Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs

cocktail boats, Lisa Burton and Nadia Cheng — at the time, graduate students in mechanical engineering ... Edgerton Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, designed an ... An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ...

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Ta Corrales

a degree in mechanical engineering (and a minor in chemistry), Corrales is a leader at the OAXIN Innovation ... she says. Back at MIT, Corrales switched her major to engineering. She was only a few classes shy of ... long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ...

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Elliot Avila

Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has ... Summit (IDDS) project, and he recently began a new job in Tanzania as a product designer and engineer for ... been really fulfilling. From an engineering perspective, the kind of problems that I work with are ...

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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves

Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... that have a lasting impact,” explains Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty ...

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Audrey Chen

explore her eclectic interests at MIT. When she wasn’t fulfilling the requirements for her mechanical ... engineering degree, she could be found leather crafting, glass blowing, or table welding in one of MIT ... MIT’s autonomous boat team  Arcturus  to entering a leadership position at 3D printing technology ...

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Drawn to big challenges, from GM to Caterpillar

industry. She interned at GM during summers while she earned her mechanical engineering degree from Michigan ... toughest of times.” Learning from classes and classmates Even as she pursued a mechanical engineering ... a pioneer throughout her career in a male-dominated engineering world,” says MIT LGO Executive Director ...

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Legena Henry SM ’10

engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... sargassum, they ran some experiments. “And the thing is, it worked!” says Henry, who has a mechanical ... says she credits MIT for showing her how the best solutions come from a multidisciplinary approach. It ...

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Legena Henry

engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... sargassum, they ran some experiments. “And the thing is, it worked!” says Henry, who has a mechanical ... says she credits MIT for showing her how the best solutions come from a multidisciplinary approach. It ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry

Immune action at a distance

Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... MIT-Koch-Institute-Traverso-Tumor-Gel.png Researchers from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have ... out of the tumor before they have had a chance to take full effect. MIT researchers, together with ...

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Deep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark

left to image,” says George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “When it comes to ... impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ... “invisible” objects, in the dark. MIT-Invisible-Vision_1024.jpg From an original transparent etching (far ...

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Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores

says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... cells. MIT-Graphene-Pores 1024.jpg Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Each graphene pore is less than ...

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To make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze

into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ... like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg   the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ...

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Stepping on stage with Beyoncé

in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ...

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Richard Li

height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he was a master’s student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ... by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an antibacterial, ...

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Startup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future

release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical ... the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... engineering  for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, where he was a member of the ...

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J-WAFS welcomes Daniela Giardina as new executive director

Professor of Water and Food in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Karnik was named the director ... every MIT department, lab, and center, spanning all disciplines. Supported research projects include ... those involving engineering, science, technology, business, social science, economics, architecture, ...

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