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Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... automatically clamped in place and mechanically wound back up to gently lift the object in a soft, sling-like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ... Engineering. With this method, that’s essentially what you get: In a process the team calls “inertio-elastic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsA microchip for metastasis
mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... engineering at Boston University who was not involved in the research. “I believe that this microfluidic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ... the journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)
designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the "supernumerary robotic fingers" device. Photo: ... Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-faye-wu-sb-%E2%80%9909-sm-%E2%80%9912Teaching robots how to move objects
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsNew electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career ... peeled off,” says Ying. Collaborating researchers from the MIT Mechanical Engineering department include ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-giStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... Hunter and Justicz, who majored in mechanical engineering and computer science, had discussed starting ... plenty of excuses to build things. One such excuse was Course 2.009 (Produce Engineering Processes), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
was a key selling point to me when I was touring mechanical engineering labs as a junior in high ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he taught a section of Course 2.007 that tasked students with ... hard-to-find components. At one competition, Bercu met Charles Guan, who would go on to major in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsJosh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader
mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ... Randolph says. A mechanical engineering major, he shares his grandfather’s interest in the scientific and ... Michael Short and professor of biological and mechanical engineering Domatilla Del Vecchio. Randolph has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leaderA legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
platform. Emily Hanhauser Emily is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering (MechE). Her research centers ... a background in engineering. In her research, she draws inspiration from nature and biological cybernetics to ... systems. From an engineering perspective, her contributions guide the design of algorithms for autonomous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-youngArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ... body move in multiple ways. In recent years, scientists and engineers have looked to muscles as ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsMIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
units, professor of mechanical engineering Alex Slocum Sr. and other engineers at MIT swung into action, ... A complex design challenge Alexander Slocum Jr. SB ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, a mechanical engineer who is now ... Jung, an MIT master’s student in mechanical engineering. Jung — who previously served five years in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-fill-covid-19-related-ventilator-shortageStudent Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
make surgical procedures less invasive. Begg first became interested in medical device engineering ... invented a puncture access mechanism with a blade that retracts at the moment it passes completely through ... the tip withdraws within 1/100 of a second. The mechanism, which is purely mechanical in nature with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggA 3D printable tissue adhesive
a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... mechanical behavior. Wu, who is one of the lead authors of the paper “ A 3D printable tissue adhesive,” ... mechanical behavior, as well as tissue-interfacing devices such as bioelectronic or drug delivery patches,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveFrom the Classroom to the Lab
| Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal From the Classroom to the Lab ... mechanically bond rigid and soft components. Expanding on research already underway in the ... firsthand experience with the methods engineers use to understand and quantify the physical world. Here, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/classroom-labAlumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13
a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... mechanics concepts I learned throughout my master’s and PhD coursework relates very well to what I’m doing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-thomas-ober-sm-%E2%80%9810-phd-%E2%80%9813Sensing the body at all scales
Mechanical Engineering. “The SENSE event helped to highlight what is happening at these different scales, ... opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... between medicine and science and engineering technology at all scales that has actually changed our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scales