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Teaching robots how to move objects
engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisTurning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... structures in nature, architecture, and more. Scientists and engineers have also taken inspiration from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-circle-square-possible-kirigami-inspired-formulaHear from our Students
Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-studentsStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... other. Lazarescu and current MechE undergraduate Rachel Dias Carlson had received funding from the MIT ... currently in orbit. Although he loves engineering, Lazarescu has also nurtured an interest in business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuTalking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
condense within these textures either – similarly with frost. When I came to MIT as an assistant professor ... MIT $100K Competition and the subsequent media frenzy over LiquiGlide – we realized that it’s a great ... MIT is a great place for innovation and commercialization. The entrepreneurial ecosystem here is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-kripa-varanasiBuilding nursery 2.0
monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ... a student who is currently on leave from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This month, Rest Devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20How cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
computer science, and mechanical engineering at MIT; along with Somaye Jafari and Shengqiang Cai at the ... crowded, ever-changing cytoplasmic space to deliver materials to various parts of a cell. Now engineers at ... MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsSun-powered desalination for villages in India
grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ... Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0Students Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and ... others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product ... engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, he has spiced up the class by donning costumes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14Today's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
engineering and civil and environmental engineering and recently named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant ... engineering problems. Pedro Miguel Reis 1024.jpg Photo: Len Rubenstein In the engineering world, material ... exploit apparent weaknesses in different realms. “In our lab we do science-enabled engineering coupled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814New method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsOrienteering for robots
student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... blood could enable doctors to diagnose and track the progression of multiple myeloma. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesA robot that senses hidden objects
been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ... Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ... Mechanical Engineering. Other co-authors include Junshan Leng, a research engineer at Harvard University, and ...
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