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MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
Rosado, and Brandon Rios; and professor of mechanical engineering Martin Culpepper. Lynch et al AIS ... it’s just flailing around in liquid,” Raman says. To get a muscle to work like a mechanical actuator, ... actuators, bearings, and other mechanisms, that can be built into machines and systems to enable ultraprecise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-flexible-%E2%80%9Cskeletons%E2%80%9D-soft-muscle-powered-robotsBringing closure to models: Deep learning physics
according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Abhinav Gupta PhD '22 An ... 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering yellow Collaboration Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-closure-models-deep-learning-physicsA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... study shows great promise and is a really novel idea leveraging natural mechanisms of protection again ... National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... Hunter and Justicz, who majored in mechanical engineering and computer science, had discussed starting ... automates all mechanical installation except for the process of pile driving the first metal stakes into the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
hard-to-find components. At one competition, Bercu met Charles Guan, who would go on to major in mechanical ... was a key selling point to me when I was touring mechanical engineering labs as a junior in high ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he taught a section of Course 2.007 that tasked students with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsMIT engineers uncover a surprising reason why tissues are flexible or rigid
deformation, is completely ignored,” says Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now ... the mechanics of tissue deformation, and the role of intercellular flow in particular, following ... to be considered in the fundamental understanding of tissue mechanics and also applications in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-uncover-surprising-reason-why-tissues-are-flexible-or-rigidSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.” Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until ... and slide back into its former, premixed state. Mechanical memory is, in part, why hand lotion ... cream have longer mechanical memories, holding onto residual stresses for longer periods of time than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. “The consequence is that ... mechanism. They then monitored the cells over five months to see whether the modification would lock the ... analog memory mechanism, invented by evolution, in the field of synthetic biology, where it could help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchPalladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... graduate student Chun Man Chow PhD ’23; Rohit Karnik, the Jameel Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Persad, a former MIT research scientist in mechanical engineering who is now an assistant professor at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuelHave a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9DAlex Kachkine
Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkineA. Michael West
into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, ... and later on, his major in mechanical engineering at Yale University agreed with him. “I definitely ... Sun Jae Professor in Mechanical Engineering, in the Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newton Laboratory for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westAbe Schneider
a mechanical windmill on the north side of the house. “We grew up hanging clothes on a line, and it wasn’t ... followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ... before starting a company. After graduation, Abe worked as a mechanical engineer and did some consulting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneiderJosh 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-leaderJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... different tissue types, but also building in mechanisms by which we can build multi-scale vasculature,” said ... Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, for a question-and-answer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DNew sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath
Tadesse and Aditya Garg stand next to the Raman microscope. Credit: Tony Pulsone, MIT Mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our new PlasmoSniff technology would enable detection of these exhaled ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Tadesse’s group builds diagnostic devices that can be used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-sensor-sniffs-out-pneumonia-patient%E2%80%99s-breathMIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “They [IBM] are able to translate some of these ... development of machine-learning methods to accelerate discovery and design within complex mechanical systems. ... solvable, but could benefit from increased speed or efficiency; however, challenges — like mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-ibm-watson-ai-lab-seed-signal-amplifying-early-career-faculty-impactCarbon removal project supports Maine’s blue economy, broader marine health
Varanasi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These changes can propagate through marine ... electrochemical cell developed by the Varanasi and Hatton Labs at MIT. Credit: John Freidah, MIT Mechanical ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal Carbon removal project supports Maine’s blue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/carbon-removal-project-supports-maine%E2%80%99s-blue-economy-broader-marine-health-0Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies
mechanism. Image credit: Courtesy of the researchers Using this self-organized pencil beam, the researchers ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The paper appears today in Nature Methods. A surprising finding The discovery ... pencil-beam and the mechanisms behind its self-organization. They also plan to apply the technique to other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-organizing-%E2%80%9Cpencil-beam%E2%80%9D-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies