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New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
temperature. The researchers are exploring ways to incorporate the film into lighter, higher-precision ... The researchers plan to apply the method to make other ultrathin, high-performance semiconducting ... of materials science and engineering, along with researchers at the University Wisconsin at Madison ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... injuries through each season. Even with all of these influences, the researchers found that the depth of ... valued." While the study focuses on professional basketball, the researchers say the findings are relevant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesJuncal Arbelaiz Mugica
Arbelaiz appreciates octopus and similar creatures in a different way, with her research into soft-robotics ... who is researching how to design decentralized intelligence for human-made systems with embedded ... at MIT. In 2018, her doctoral research shifted to the interdisciplinary Sociotechnical System ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/juncal-arbelaiz-mugicaArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, swimmers, and grippers. ... MIT-ArtificialTendons-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber ... unit.” Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News But for the most part, these designs are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
of the research-based solutions being supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab ... providing over $1 million in funding to the MIT research community. These grants, which are funded ... research and innovation. This year, seven new projects led by nine faculty PIs across all five schools ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
research and restoration need to understand the engineered structures that profoundly affect their ... Stocker’s own research, for example, “we are trying to understand the oceans from the smallest scales up. We ... research in this department has been growing very rapidly in recent years,” he says, with the number of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringSecretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT
discussing energy innovation at a campus forum, viewing poster presentations from researchers supported ... through the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance, and watching energy research demos in the lab ... Samberg Center. While the Institute has added many research facilities and buildings since Wright was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secretary-energy-chris-wright-%E2%80%9985-visits-mitFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
Former MIT president Charles M. Vest — a tireless advocate for research and science, and ... third-longest in the Institute’s 152-year history —MIT renewed its commitment to education and research through ... knowledge, MIT’s research enterprise grew substantially during his tenure. Vest spearheaded expansions into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72Bound for Robotic Glory
bounding until it reaches a full gallop. Now MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that ... mph, even continuing to run after clearing a hurdle. The MIT researchers estimate that the current ... Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The combination of such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-gloryA new way to make microstructured surfaces
A team of researchers has created a new way of manufacturing microstructured surfaces that have ... the growth rate of the nanotubes. By offsetting the two patterns, the researchers showed that the ... engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in this research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesSquishy robots
applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... Working with robotics company Boston Dynamics, based in Waltham, Mass., the researchers began developing ... the material as part of the Chemical Robots program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
visiting research fellow Qi “Kevin” Ge; LLNL’s Christopher Spadaccini and Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng; and eight ... the joint research collaboration between the Fang and Spadaccini groups since 2008. Normally, Fang ... Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedA new way to detect leaks in pipes
altogether. Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... The researchers have begun discussions with gas companies and water companies — the system can also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-detect-leaks-pipesHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, studied how cormorants and other diving ... feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... combination of surface coating and shape is so effective. To do that, the researchers took feathers from six ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesExcitons observed in action for the first time
research leading to significant advances in electronics, they say, as well as a better understanding of ... natural energy-transfer processes, such as photosynthesis. The research is described this week in the ... the excitons were moving around with.” This advance provided the researchers with the ability to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excitons-observed-action-first-timeRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
the researchers reveal for the first time the mechanics behind this process, and describe how their ... researchers built a mechanical puppet clamshell, consisting of two halves that can move together and apart in ... test their RoboClam prototype in salt water, the researchers used a compressed air system to power the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... muster. The researchers, including senior author Bruce Volpe of the Feinstein Institute for Medical ... Research in Manhasset, N.Y., and Michael Krams, of Janssen Research Development in Titusville, N.J., have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsA microchip for metastasis
Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... — slightly larger than a dime — contains several channels in which the researchers grew endothelial cells and ... — a process called extravasation, which Kamm’s research group modeled last fall using a novel microfluidic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ... the drops to bounce faster, that can have many advantages.” Video courtesy of the researchers For ... potential to be useful for a variety of applications.” With this reduction in contact time, the researchers ...
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