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Ken Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... faculty position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2011, where he has continued his work in ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandHairy tongues help bats drink up
spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ... with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao and his team have published their findings today in Science Robotics. MIT ... Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... the engineers threw 150 balls at the robot, one after the other, from across the ping pong table. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... a diamond sample (shown here) at room temperature. Image: Sabine Galland Now scientists at MIT and the Swiss ... and in precisely engineered, microscopic materials that researchers must probe in a vacuum. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... MIT-Unruh-Effect-01-press_0.jpeg According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowHow to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand
processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... through sand, gravel, or other soft media can help engineers drive a rover over Martian soil, anchor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-push-wiggle-or-drill-object-through-sandTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ... author Michael Wessely, a recent postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesWrinkle Predictions
Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ... student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationJosh 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, ... “I always wanted to be in public service, serve my community, and serve my country,” says the MIT ... he’s done in his time at MIT, and he’s never missed a race. “I want to do things that are challenging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leaderVibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses, ... cell wall so it can hijack the cell’s reproductive mechanisms. MIT-COVID-Spikes-02-PRESS.jpg New ... research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infectionSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... part, by MIT’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence and an MIT Mathworks Fellowship. ... separates and gets runny over time. MIT-MaterialMemory-01-press_1024.jpg Using a rheometer, MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtPrintable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and ... John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... fan blades in jet engines. Fan blades are traditionally cast from titanium — a material that is more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-partsThe Birth of a Hands-On Education
2.007 was at the forefront of a revolution in engineering education, becoming one of the first hands-on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/birth-hands-educationCrack densification in drying colloidal suspensions
Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering, rationalizes the spectacular crack ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crack-densification-drying-colloidal-suspensionsMADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the ... for winter outages — but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle ... DMSE on Nov. 10 at MIT, where audience presentations and poster sessions capped months of design and ...
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