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MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
address. Cynthia Breazeal SM ’93, ScD ’00 is a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, where she ... additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. Six current MIT affiliates and ... 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellows-0Needles that hit the right mark
teamed up with researchers at MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, headed by Peter So, a professor of ... which the needles are inserted too far or placed in the wrong tissue. A team of researchers from MIT and ... MIT-Epidural-placement_1024.jpg Currently, anesthesiologists must guide a four- to six-inch needle through multiple layers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/needles-hit-right-markSix from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ... Those elected from MIT in 2025 are: Lotte Bailyn, T. Wilson Professor of Management Emerita; Gareth ... Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2025A new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... become resistant. In a new approach to devising more personalized treatments, researchers at MIT and ... cells, based on how it affects their growth rates. MIT-Cancer-Cell-Mass.jpg Researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugs2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ... annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... Bridge, and a Boston Tea Party ship dubbed the H.M.S. Beaver. MIT-2007-Robots-2016_1024.jpg Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ... feedback to adjust the position of the robot arm in order to apply the desired force. 1024MIT ... courtesy of MIT CSAIL. This could be useful, for example, for someone using tools when there’s uncertainty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceBreaking through the mucus barrier
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... a hospital. A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
Monday, December 2, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Giovanni ... wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. To overcome that limitation, MIT ... deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ... MIT-Heat-Transfer 1024.jpg This illustration depicts phonons "tunneling" from one lattice of sodium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapBig Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... cells. MIT-Graphene-Pores 1024.jpg Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Each graphene pore is less than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ... 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal New technique developed by Assistant Professor Ming Guo ... rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-diseaseIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
applications,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... researchers at MIT have developed a technique to use the effect to their advantage. The new technique, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfold“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ... carbon dioxide into fuels. MIT-Enhancing-Electro-01-PRESS.jpeg This diagram illustrates the new process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsClosing 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 ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ... of electronics. Credits: MIT News; iStock “This idea sounds simple, but the reasons people haven’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesRobotic palm mimics human touch
from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ... ongoing Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design developed in MIT's Computer Science and ...
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