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Membrane 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 ...

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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip

developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... identical, low-cost electric motors that the researchers engineered using off-the-shelf parts. Each motor can ...

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Turning 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 ...

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Hear 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 ...

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Faculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1968 as an associate professor, bringing with him a BS in mechanical ... engineering from Yale University, an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in ...

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Student 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 ...

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David Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues

life,” says the mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing ... in the lab and the MLB, he was achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball ... Hesslink broke the record to become the pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that ...

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Building 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 ...

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Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch

MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Environmental Engineering, says the group’s technique may be used to fabricate magnetically controlled ...

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New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... Engineering (DMSE). “For example, it could be directly worn on glasses.” The heat-sensing film could also have ...

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How 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 ...

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Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties

Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... (25).jpg MIT engineers have shown that they can use magnetic fields to track the location of this ...

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2.007 Forever!

designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... final competition for MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). | The ... On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ...

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2.12: Introduction to Robotics

engineering student, it’s a fun hands-on convergence of design, manufacturing, kinematics, controls, ... engineering, but it’s particularly important in robotics – we wouldn’t have robotics without it.” An elective ... mathematical concepts and a chance to build on their foundation in mechanical engineering basics. Students ...

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New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts

Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Mindy Blodgett | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Horizontal MIT ... 1 million Americans, ranging from infants and older children to seniors. Now, MIT researchers have released ...

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How to Hide Like an Octopus

their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic ... Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and Duke University Professor of Chemistry Stephen ... Craig. Zhao, who joined the MIT faculty from Duke this month and holds a joint appointment with the ...

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Harvesting 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 ...

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Students 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 ...

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Scientists make microscopes from droplets

Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...

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Today'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 ...

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