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Protecting machine learning datasets

Facebook AI Research group. He developed a machine-learning pipeline that aimed to teach robots how to move ... fulfill same-day delivery orders, similar to Amazon. The team named their startup Stack, and were accepted ... well, because we are the market,” says Aceituno. The team has done extensive market research. As they ...

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Targeting Product Design for the Developing World

Associate Professor Maria Yang and her research team suggest that microentrepreneurs are a promising and ... a line of Nokia cellphones. From their research, as well as interviews with product designers, the ... researchers drew up guidelines on how to design for emerging markets. In addition to designing products that ...

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Just what the doctor ordered

some researchers and industry partners — who propose a problem for a team of students to work on. These ... want you to learn from our engineering skills,’” adds Nevan Hanumara, research scientist in the ... Therapeutics, a startup that simplifies reconstitution — the process of mixing powdered drugs with a solvent ...

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2.75: Precision Machine Design

collaborative work continues to drive my clinical research.” Course 2.75 is similar to the undergraduate 2.009 ... look at the list of devices and start-up companies that have spun off from the work done by students in ... Design of Medical Devices Conference. They recently began a startup called Nyx Devices based on their ...

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Hot flash relief during menopause

years,” says Cavill. Cavill is co-founder and CEO of Amira, a startup formerly known as AuraBlue that has ... Felipe Radovitzky ’20, threw themselves into market research. “Their team thrived together in this ... their ability to quickly refocus and develop a new product. “Building a startup is hard. You see the ...

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... raised $10,000 to turn MIT’s “mens et manus” (“mind and hand”) motto into a startup challenge. Over time, ... with sponsor support, the event grew into the renowned, highly anticipated startup competition it is ...

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Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor

The following was issued as a joint announcement from MIT.nano and the MIT Research Laboratory for ... has been selected to receive an $11.25 million cost-shared award to establish a new research center to ... A collaborative effort with lead industry participant CubicPV, solar startup Verde Technologies, and academic ...

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Legena Henry SM ’10

bloom, fills over 800 dump trucks on a bad day in Barbados. But thanks to this research, instead of being ... Sargassum, a startup established in 2021. The company recently conducted two test drives: one in  Barbados ... in Barbados and potentially help eliminate the island’s dependence on foreign oil. The startup ...

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Legena Henry

800 dump trucks on a bad day in Barbados. But thanks to this research, instead of being taken to ... Sargassum, a startup established in 2021. The company recently conducted two test drives: one in  Barbados ... in Barbados and potentially help eliminate the island’s dependence on foreign oil. The startup ...

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Student entrepreneurs think inside the box

inside a glass cube housed on the MIT campus. Their effort was part of InCube, a global startup ... A researcher from DUSP [Department of Urban Studies and Planning] even put together a personalized large packet ... of research papers outlining how the pollution from ambulances may affect cardiac health. Their ...

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MechE Classes

Introduction to Robotics at MIT Using AI to Explore Oceans A Class with the Feel of a Startup Discovering the ...

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J-WAFS welcomes Daniela Giardina as new executive director

researchers launch 13 startups and receive over $25 million in follow-on funding. Giardina joins J-WAFS at an ... been impressed with her commitment to working on global water and food challenges through research and ... Giardina_1024.jpg Daniela Giardina. Credit: Courtesy of J-WAFS: A decade of impact J-WAFS fuels research ...

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News & Awards- Fall 2021

Manufacturing Engineering. Research News • A team of engineers led by Professor Nicholas Fang has designed a new ... stimuli. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers • A Joule study from MIT engineers, including Professor Evelyn ... impact-resistant materials. • Researchers, including Professor Yang Shao-Horn, have found a novel electrolyte that ...

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MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition

research, the team estimated that if female faculty founded startups at the same rate as their male ... mentorship and guidance to the finalists as they further develop their startup ideas. Future Founders2.jpg: ... Entrepreneurship. The idea for the program stemmed from a research project Bhatia conducted alongside Susan ...

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Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics

perform dynamically and balance, I get really excited. And that feeling has encouraged my research ... students launched commercially through a startup company called Solutionix, which has since expanded on ... loved the figuring-out part. And I realized after a year of the startup process, I should be working in ...

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Varanasi, Kripa Professor

A new way to irrigate crops year-round

Startup Khethworks is deploying solar-powered pumps to help poor farmers in India irrigate crops ... all year long. Toward the end of 2019, startup Khethworks began selling what the team refers to ... Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship International Maker Horizontal Khethworks, a start-up founded by GEAR Lab ...

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Thomas Ober

startup atmosphere of the Haas Formula 1 racing team is very similar to working in a research group: It’s ... I was doing with my PhD.” In a lot of ways, says Ober, the startup atmosphere of the Haas Formula ... 1 racing team is very similar to working in a research group: It’s a small, passionate team working ...

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Cooling homes without warming the planet

Now the startup Transaera is working to curb those energy demands with a more efficient air ... the impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs. MIT-Transaera-01_1024.jpg The startup ... done pioneering research on MOFs, and the company’s team members see the materials’ commercial ...

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MechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US

designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... debut of their founding technology, the Freedom Chair. GRIT is a social-enterprise startup that relies ... on in-the-field research and user feedback to guide its products. The Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), ...

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