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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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadBig data dreams for tiny technologies
nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. “We can account for things like drug absorption, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesGiving robots better moves
Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesSetting a new standard for hormone health
MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-healthA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... allowing new materials and compounds to be “reverse-engineered” simply by inputting a set of desired ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airAI 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-bodiesTiny 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyRobotic 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansBasketball 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-successesMeet 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-mitaa-president-stephen-p-defalco-%E2%80%9983-sm-%E2%80%9988Checking 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-toolHow 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonPalak 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patel“Robot, make me a chair”
Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Architecture. Kyaw is joined on the paper by Richa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DDeep-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-darkImmune 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