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A. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... Yale, West was selected to participate in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careHow to Hide Like an Octopus
Researchers create materials that reproduce cephalopods’ ability to quickly change colors and ... materials. Now a team of researchers has come closer than ever to achieving that goal, creating a flexible ... control. Octopus-235519 1024.jpg The results of their research have been published in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... researchers fabricated an array of the microhairs onto an elastic, transparent layer of silicone. microscopic ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairLiving sensors at your fingertips
up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ... courtesy of the researchers In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ... Sciences, the researchers demonstrate the new material’s potential for sensing chemicals, both in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on ... Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... nanodevices to manipulate light, potentially opening up new possibilities for research and, ultimately, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
Human skeletal muscles have a unique combination of properties that materials researchers seek for ... researchers has found one way to give synthetic hydrogels this total package of characteristics: putting them ... polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels trained in the experiment are well-known biomaterials that researchers use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleNew capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. In tests in pigs, the researchers showed that this ... researchers set out to develop a capsule that could inject its contents into the wall of the small intestine. ... intestine and perform these micro-injections, the researchers coated it with a polymer that can survive the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-capsule-can-orally-deliver-drugs-usually-have-be-injectedCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
“If you want a table, then you should just grow a table.” Researchers in Velásquez-García’s group have ... sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... So, she brought plant production into the lab. The researchers grew wood-like plant tissue indoors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room. Researchers ... conducted nationwide, the researchers also found that a majority of respondents were open to having robots ... Peter Chai, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowA robot that senses hidden objects
In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have ... perception,” he says. The researchers have developed a robot that uses radio waves, which can pass through ... a jumbled toolkit. The research will be presented in May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
Researchers This kind of localized drug delivery could make it easier to treat inflammatory diseases affecting ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ... up and drive into the tissue to do the drug delivery,” Traverso says. For this study, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractOvercoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
If researchers could find a way to chemically convert carbon dioxide into fuels or other products, ... a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... MIT-CO2-Limits-01-PRESS.jpeg MIT researchers have identified a problem that tends to limit chemical processes for turning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversionMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
MIT.nano has announced its next round of seed grants to support hardware and software research ... are pleased to be able to continue supporting research at the crossroads of the physical and the ... is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-third-annual-seed-grantsBreaking through the mucus barrier
Hospital. In a study appearing today in Science Robotics, the researchers demonstrated that they could use ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... in animals, the researchers used this capsule to deliver either insulin or vancomycin, a large ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma
mobility, and quality of life for a lifetime. Promising new research co-led by Ritu Raman, the d’Arbeloff ... host tissue,” says Raman. A new paper published in the journal Biomaterials presents research that ... Pulsone/Department of Mechanical Engineering The researchers were excited to discover that actuating grafts seem to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma-0Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used machine learning to build ... would fabricate a design. The researchers integrate this simulator into a design framework, along with ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
well to weight-loss drugs, the researchers say. “The basic concept is we can have this balloon that is ... be a way of inducing weight loss.” To achieve a longer-lasting effect in patients, the researchers ... animal tests, the researchers found that the mechanical-arm device could effectively expand to fill the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightNew electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
Medicine, MechE researchers introduce e-GLUE, a novel hydrogel interface that uses electroadhesion to both ... researchers Electroadhesion, which works like a mini electrical charge, helps the hydrogel ‘stick’ to the GI ... department and research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, was doing his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-gi