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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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsMonthly 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesNew 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyThis 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airFrom triathlons to aerospace, Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21 pursues passions for leadership and manufacturing
in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ... Hardt, Braun’s mechanical engineering advisor. “All of this took place during a time of great uncertainty ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/triathlons-aerospace-caitlin-braun-mba-%E2%80%9921-sm-%E2%80%9921-pursues-passions-leadership-andPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... KFUPM through the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy. Friday, October 25, 2013 Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationGlassy carbon, now with less heat
support through MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite Aerospace Structures Consortium. Stein was supported ... Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ... adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatImmune 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distanceDeep-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Materials Engineering. Sunday, February 17, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberMechE Summer X
Information These summer offerings are intended for the benefit of the MIT Mechanical Engineering community ... About The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates, ... led and organized by members of the MIT MechE community. Activities can be academic and non-academic. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/meche-summer-xBig 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresTo 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ... moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetStepping 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
for research at MIT D-Lab and professor of mechanical engineering, has pioneered a new approach to ... The team includes Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, and ... Eric Verploegen, a research engineer in MIT D-Lab. Instead of relying on traditional refrigeration with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-2021-solutions-grants-commercializing-water-and-food-technologiesIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
Ali as lead instructors were Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, and Shakes ... member in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had an opportunity to observe the ... Initiatives International Horizontal Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, was a lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... “Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-us