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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodies

Tiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens

engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ... Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab; and Assistant Professor Loza Tadesse of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. Oil and water Looking for diseased cells and pathogens in fluid samples is an exercise in ...

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A pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy

expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ...

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Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans

mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) through the Center for Complex Engineering ...

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Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes

Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... engineers, sports scientists, directors of research, and other technical positions by title, but also staff members ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successes

Meet the MITAA President: Stephen P. DeFalco ’83, SM ’88

future generations. DeFalco, whose one-year term begins July 1, earned his mechanical engineering degree ... master’s in computer engineering from Syracuse University. Then he returned to MIT to get a master’s degree ...

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers  Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... simple, and cheap modality,” says study co-author Loza Tadesse, assistant professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-tool

How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...

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Palak Patel

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...

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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 ... right), engineers produced a photograph in the dark (top left), then attempted to reconstruct the object ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-dark

Immune action at a distance

a senior author of the study, Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... chemical engineering perspective?” says Rosenboom. The interdisciplinary team determined that the injected ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distance

Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance

Gallant, alliance director who is also the Kendall Rohsenow Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... SM ’03, PhD ’19, senior engineering manager in the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center; Brent Brunell ... future energy leaders by supporting the New Engineering Education Transformation program (NEET) and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-alliance

Talking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma

Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ...

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Harnessing the speed of light

associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ...

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Lemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners

wearable, mechanical interfaces that improve comfort and mobility for amputees. His approach, which uses ... Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering. The Lemelson Foundation seeks to inspire and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lemelson-mit-announces-national-collegiate-student-prize-competition-winners

Pills of the future: nanoparticles

mechanical engineering; and Richard Blumberg, co-director of BWH’s Biomedical Research Institute. No more ...

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PhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)

| Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)

Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal ...

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Ocean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice

computational science and engineering as “optimal state and parameter estimation” to plug in a variety of ... Bremerhaven, Germany, says the feedback mechanism identified by the MIT group is important for predicting ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-ice

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