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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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsNew 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-giJosh 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leaderArtificial 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsA 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,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveFrom 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, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/classroom-labAlumni 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%9813Sensing 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesAging 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationStrengthening 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseTeam 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
printing technology that can be implemented now. Martin Wegener, a professor of mechanical engineering at ... those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... as light and sparse as aerogel [a kind of glass foam], we see a mechanical stiffness that’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... conversations with Vice President for Open Learning and professor of mechanical engineering Sanjay Sarma. Sarma ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-botLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
of Mechanical Engineering, pursues new design principles for high-performance battery materials that ... Dincă and Hart, Sferza also recruited mechanical engineering student Patricia Das ’17 and chemical ... engineering and chemistry student Angela Cai ’19, whose research at Santa Agata Bolognese cemented and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ... MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ... By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ... “Often as engineers, we think about different solutions, but sometimes they may not be adopted because ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... implementation of new engineering solutions, it will make it easier for patients to receive that therapy.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... creating composites with CNCs at high loading, we can give polymer-based materials mechanical properties ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminum