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Charting the future of production

(mechanical engineering) and Berger. Since early 2022, this group, which includes faculty from across campus, ... Office, Schmidt Futures, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering all partnered with Manufacturing@MIT ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal A symposium organized by the Manufacturing@MIT Working Group, which is ...

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Benjamin, Michael Richard Principal Research Scientist

Giving robots a faster grasp

combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Rodriguez’ co-authors are lead author Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and ...

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Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... automatically clamped in place and mechanically wound back up to gently lift the object in a soft, sling-like ...

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A scientific approach to education reform

back-benchers.” The real hope, of course, is to get back as soon as safely possible to learning situations that ...

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New particle-sorting method breaks speed records

McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ... Engineering. With this method, that’s essentially what you get: In a process the team calls “inertio-elastic ...

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A microchip for metastasis

mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... engineering at Boston University who was not involved in the research. “I believe that this microfluidic ...

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Droplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing

mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ... the journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ...

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Teaching robots how to move objects

| Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...

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New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases

e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career ... peeled off,” says Ying.  Collaborating researchers from the MIT Mechanical Engineering department include ...

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Josh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader

mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ... Randolph says. A mechanical engineering major, he shares his grandfather’s interest in the scientific and ... Michael Short and professor of biological and mechanical engineering Domatilla Del Vecchio. Randolph has ...

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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ... body move in multiple ways. In recent years, scientists and engineers have looked to muscles as ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ...

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A 3D printable tissue adhesive

a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... mechanical behavior.   Wu, who is one of the lead authors of the paper “ A 3D printable tissue adhesive,” ... mechanical behavior, as well as tissue-interfacing devices such as bioelectronic or drug delivery patches,” ...

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From the Classroom to the Lab

| Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal From the Classroom to the Lab ... mechanically bond rigid and soft components. Expanding on research already underway in the ... firsthand experience with the methods engineers use to understand and quantify the physical world. Here, ...

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Graves, Stephen C Professor

Alumni 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 ...

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Sensing the body at all scales

Mechanical Engineering. “The SENSE event helped to highlight what is happening at these different scales, ... opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... between medicine and science and engineering technology at all scales that has actually changed our ...

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Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is launching an investigation of possible disruption of intercellular ... associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, proposes to use artificial ...

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Strengthening America’s manufacturing base

U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department ... Engineering, and Professor Chris Voigt’s lab in the Department of Biological Engineering — all of whom ... Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu (center) visited the Beaver Works space in MIT ...

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Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications

Mechanical Engineering. Co-first authors of the paper are Emre Tekoğlu, an MIT postdoc in the Department of ... a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... says Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and a professor in MIT’s ...

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