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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 ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-combines-vision-and-touch-learn-game-jenga

New parameters in graduate mentoring

Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ... Sikes: Teaching beyond the lab Professor Hadley D. Sikes of the Department of Chemical Engineering is ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoring

Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses

a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-doses

Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet

a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sen, Kantareddy, and their colleagues at ... open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-%E2%80%9Csmart%E2%80%9D-diaper-can-notify-caregiver-when-it%E2%80%99s-wet

Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ... also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spread

MIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants

everyday life, and storytelling for science and engineering communication. A glimpse at the guts of ... Engineering to offer a three-module course on the basics of and resources for human subjects research, as well ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participants

How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The work, reported today in the journal Science Advances, shows that ... Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, who was not associated ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-eject

Giving robots better moves

Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-moves

Setting a new standard for hormone health

Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ... MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-health

A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

allowing new materials and compounds to be “reverse-engineered” simply by inputting a set of desired ... investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracy

Making RNA vaccines easier to swallow

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the paper are Grace Zhong, Joy Collins, Siddartha Tamang, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallow

Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

running PEN, Beem is also an engineering professor at Ashesi University in Ghana, where the lasting power ... engineering students Beem’s university has ever had. PEN’s first students aren’t quite of college age yet, but ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potential

Heather Beem

running PEN, Beem is also an engineering professor at Ashesi University in Ghana, where the lasting power ... engineering students Beem’s university has ever had. PEN’s first students aren’t quite of college age yet, but ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem

This 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 ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-air

AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodies

A pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy

expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsy

Desalination 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 ... Engineering, along with Jintong Gao, Jinfang You, Zhanyu Ye, Ruzhu Wang, and Zhenyuan Xu of Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-water

Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots

manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, who was not involved with this ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robots

With 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 ... a laser’s physical intricacies, the team looked to simplify the problem. “When an electrical engineer thinks ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-propose

New 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste

Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ... worked closely with lead author Mehmet Ozdemir of TU Delft; Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-waste

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