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MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga
a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the robot demonstrates something that’s ... In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-combines-vision-and-touch-learn-game-jengaCookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya
MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ... universities." The project and the team In January 2022, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, a team ... from MIT D-Lab visited North India and Nepal to conduct field research regarding firewood cooking and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cookstoves-and-connections-himalayaJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was charged with designing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianInnovations in water accessibility
Through Xylem’s two-year Engineering Leadership Development Program, Klise will rotate between three ... her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityRichard Li
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ... by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an antibacterial, ... “This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now have the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/richard-liLetting robots manipulate cables
Dong, and Neha Sunil; Alberto Rodriguez, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Edward ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cablesRandall Briggs
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/randall-briggsJoe Brown
engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after graduation that dance became ... a bigger part of Brown’s life. “I joined [MIT’s competitive hip hop team] Ridonkulous post-graduation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ... honorees of the student-driven “ Committed to Caring ” (C2C) program. Started in the spring of 2014, ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a budding engineer’s goldmine. His house was in a constant state of flux and renovation, and his father had ... a scientific point of view…. A lot of people discredit learning those ideas formally, but MIT does a really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-spencer-wilson-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9915Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
Sophia Chen, a fifth-year senior double majoring in mechanical engineering and art and design, ... learned about MIT D-Lab when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their home ... in Clearwater to Tampa to an MIT informational open house for prospective students. There, she heard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectA portable light system that can digitize everyday objects
MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... This work was supported by the MIT-GIST Joint Research Program and was presented at the ACM Symposium ... appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/portable-light-system-can-digitize-everyday-objectsJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
at MIT; Jennifer Lewis PhD ’91, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at ... Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... that they can do it, too.” Lewis, who arrived at MIT as a materials science and engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DThere’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus
Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ... work with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and PhD student Yiwen Hu, Buehler discovered that the proteins ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-symphony-antibody-protein-body-makes-neutralize-coronavirusRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsAdventures in the Pappalardo Lab
calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... director of mechanical engineering at Continuum, a global innovation firm, Daniel Braunstein says he felt ... that what he was providing wasn’t as meaningful as he would like. Luckily for MIT's Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adventures-pappalardo-labScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... met Amy Smith, founding director of MIT D-Lab, who introduced her to D-Lab’s method of manufacturing ... the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesFeatured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air
Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ... ever. The key, according to Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head for MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-pulling-drinking-water-out-thin-air