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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

equipment.    You have a diverse educational and training background. How has this shaped your research? I have ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ... the way materials and devices interact with the body.  Much of your research focuses on hydrogels. How ...

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Maintaining the equipment that powers our world

startup Tagup is working to modernize the maintenance of transformers and other industrial equipment. The ... Mentoring Service, and Tagup was in the first cohort of startups accepted into the MIT Industrial Liaison ... Program’s (ILP) STEX 25 accelerator, which connects high potential startups with members of industry. Tagup ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems

engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... startup with a fulfillment rate of about 50 units per hour. “We were losing money on every order,” ...

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Inventor Creates Hub for Innovation

entrepreneurship. He built up and shut down one startup centered on retrofitting home gas furnaces and another based ... underresourced, undersupported founder inspired him to create a startup hub he called Catalyze, which grew into ... investors, and learn business and technical skills. One startup used mHub’s high-powered 3D printers to ...

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Bill Fienup

entrepreneurship. He built up and shut down one startup centered on retrofitting home gas furnaces and another based ... underresourced, undersupported founder inspired him to create a startup hub he called Catalyze, which grew into ... investors, and learn business and technical skills. One startup used mHub’s high-powered 3D printers to ...

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Bioengineering: A Mechanical Engineering Crossroads

technological advancements that could barely have been imagined when MechE first began research activities in ... and influence their research, such as bio-integrated engineering and consumer empowerment. ... gathers via a network of neurons to a conventional CPU that analyzes it (see Faculty Research: Professor ...

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Unleashing the potential of the mind

startup Pison Technology, founded by Dexter Ang ’05, is using sensors to turn biopotentials on the skin ... a startup that uses neuromuscular sensors to help people interact with digital interfaces. Pison’s sensor ... other players in this space — Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink being one, well-publicized example — but Ang ...

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Setting a new standard for hormone health

than something they are dreading or feel is a burden.” The startup, which was conceived during the MIT ... build a hardware startup. Suzuki had worked in a rehabilitation facility and saw the problems people had ... Service, and went through the startup accelerators MIT delta v and MIT fuse. They also won the audience ...

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