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A bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractA simpler method for learning to control a robot
in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
Researchers from MIT and Delft University of Technology have now introduced a more efficient, less wasteful, ... Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ... MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Doğan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceFrom large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. ... She is also the MIT dean for digital learning, leading MIT Open Learning’s business and research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/large-labs-small-teams-mentorship-thrivesHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “I’m sure chocolatiers have come up with techniques ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessBryan Schmid
difficult was the transition from engineering to entrepreneurship? MIT certainly fosters an interest in ... MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ... up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges did you encounter in your design? When you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/bryan-schmidStudy: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... and distance them from each other.” The study’s co-authors are members of MIT’s Institue for Data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-masking-and-distancing-place-nfl-stadium-openings-2020-had-no-impact-local-covid-19Getting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... previous platforms,” Chen says. Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselKnitted microtissue can accelerate healing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/knitted-microtissue-can-accelerate-healingA robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsA microchip for metastasis
Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)
designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... Engineering red Maker asada@mit.edu Horizontal Student Faye Wu is designing a robotic finger system you can ... in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the "supernumerary robotic fingers" device. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-faye-wu-sb-%E2%80%9909-sm-%E2%80%9912