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Paper-folding art inspires better bandages
engineers have come up with a stickier solution, in the form of a thin, lightweight, rubber-like film. The ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Fahrenheit. The group has also engineered a wearable electronic film outfitted with light-emitting diodes. All ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and another senior author of the paper. Flexible protection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberRobotic 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 ... Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
engineers, performing artists and data scientists will work to change the way humans think, study, interact, ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Associate Professor Mohammad Alizadeh proposes using artificial ... with mechanical engineering Research Scientist Micha Feigin-Almon, aim to study and generate a modeling ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... 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-kindnessAn origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
from origami, MIT engineers have now designed a medical patch that can be folded around minimally ... injured site. MIT_Robo-Patch-Frankel_1024.jpg MIT engineers have design paper-like medical tapes (shown ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “This patch technology spans many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/origami-inspired-medical-patch-sealing-internal-injuriesBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
engineering team of Multiply Labs. Photo Courtesy of Multiply Labs. In a recently announced project, Multiply ... requires scientists to extract blood from a patient, isolate immune cells, genetically engineer those ... startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... delivery science,” Traverso says. “From an engineering perspective, the ability to deliver monoclonal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering. “This strategy might be used, for example, to give both color and self-cleaning properties to ... Yaqoob, professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering Peter So, and associate professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering ... and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the ... senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... Guo SM ’22, and professor of mechanical engineering Sangbae Kim, the director of the Biomimetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesSupporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... the potential to have tremendous impact,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering ... and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “They embody the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-sustainability-digital-health-and-future-workPeer coaching helps graduate students thrive
spring of 2020, she got an email about the launch of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Coaching Program ... ’05, who also works as a research engineer at MIT. Hendrickson draws a distinction between coaching and ... mechanical engineers is to think about coaching as collaborative product development, with the student as the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peer-coaching-helps-graduate-students-thriveStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
engineers observed that a liquid crystal’s orderly microstructures will spontaneously assemble into large, ... emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsSophia 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, ... developing areas by engineering a new type of rapid detection technology that would sample from users’ local ... water sources. From there, she joined Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... electronic engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Peter Chai, an associate professor ... students at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Jack Chen, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesA portable light system that can digitize everyday objects
appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display ... MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/portable-light-system-can-digitize-everyday-objectsNew filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ... Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
of Materials Science and Engineering and mounted on the mission’s Lunar Outpost MAPP Rover. The ... Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; nano-etching and testing from ... numerical representations that could be turned into fonts. He also reverse-engineered a typesetting language ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voices