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A measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
engineering) at MIT, co-founded Squirrel Devices to tackle this problem. Their first instrument aims to make ... lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible. squirrel-device-mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... as in engineering applications such as soft robots,” Zhao says. Other MIT authors on the paper ... their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleA new way to make droplets bounce away
In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ... do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ... bacteria remained alive for more than an hour afterward. MIT-Rain-Bacteria_1024.jpg A raindrop, splashing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ... Foundation. Monday, September 7, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Horizontal A new model developed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsWith a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Then, we’ve shown that there are ways you can even get around ... and financial markets. MIT-Quantum-Clock-01-press_0.jpg Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be ... time, according to a new MIT study. Image: MIT News; iStock A clock’s stability depends on the noise in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-proposeMIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science
and mechanical engineering at MIT. The rally kicked off a series of events that attracted more than ... from MIT’s Program in Women and Gender Studies. Event panelists in addition to Bobel, Cohn, Griffith, ... More than 70 MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in MIT’s Killian Court recently to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-events-illuminate-critical-need-menstruation-scienceDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ... left to image,” says George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “When it comes to ... “invisible” objects, in the dark. MIT-Invisible-Vision_1024.jpg From an original transparent etching (far ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkLEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow
Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... and ingenuity, and it has inspired MIT faculty to bring LEGOs into the classroom, including 2.S00 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrowMIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ... of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
to embed into existing solar panels? Recruiting MIT mechanical engineering student Jody Fu, Sistine ... Sistine recruited Anthony Occidentale, an MIT mechanical engineering student who has since helped further ... 2006. MIT-Sistine-Solar.jpg Founded at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sistine Solar creates custom ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ... development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Engineering at MIT, as well as research scientists Andrea Pavesi and Giulia Adriani, postdoc Majid Ebrahimi ... Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyData-driven diabetes management
insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airPower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ... fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... how those patients actually fared when treated with those drugs. MIT-Treatment 1024.jpg Cells pass ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsSpray tuning
specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ...
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