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Squishy robots

the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ...

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A microchip for metastasis

Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... system lies in its simplicity and elegance,” says Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biological ...

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Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs

An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... inspired by nature. John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics, and renowned Spanish chef José Andrés ... nature to the kitchen.” MIT scientists design two culinary novelties, inspired by nature. The first is ...

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Blooming ocean fronts

winter, there’s little phytoplankton,” says Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Oceanography ... in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “It’s like going into a desert. And ... as to what triggers the bloom onset.” Ferrari and John Taylor, a former postdoc at MIT and now ...

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Student 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 ... – has been a member of Professor Asada’s lab for two years, working on a set of futuristic robotic ... Melanie Gonick/MIT An outside observer would see a user with two hands – and 12 fingers. One of the hands ...

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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... using the environment as a helping hand. The team, led by Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of ...

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On a mission to build the uncrashable car

As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... would be on helping the robot better navigate and understand its surroundings.” At MIT and Woods Hole, ...

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A new way to mend a broken heart

Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ... a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The hearts that received ...

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... that map void spaces. SPROUT was developed in collaboration with Margaret Coad '15, a professor at ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ...

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Separating finely mixed oil and water

journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Brian Solomon, and postdoc M. ... ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... cloudy appearance. Anish Tuteja, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...

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Moderating Extremes in Building Design

and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... panels to improve insulation and software packages to guide architects. The professor of architecture and ... for that. One option is to use aerogel. It’s not a new technology, but, in conjunction with MIT ...

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No more blackouts?

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ... at MIT have developed a method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct ... current, or DC — an architecture that was originally proposed as part of the MIT Tata Center’s uLink ...

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Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

functionality, in one flexible chip,” says Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... inflexible. Now a process developed by MIT engineers may be the key to manufacturing flexible electronics with ... Jackson Bauer, and Caroline Ross from MIT, along with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin at ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... a Herculean effort,” says the study’s senior author  Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor in the ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... work,” says co-author Christopher Rackauckas, an applied mathematics instructor at MIT. “Instead, good ...

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AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... these challenges, MIT researchers developed a generative-AI-driven tool that enables the user to add ... professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University; as well as other members ...

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A bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract

Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ... of the study. Traverso and his students at MIT developed the new capsule along with researchers at ...

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New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide

A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... researchers designed. The findings are described today in the journal Joule, in a paper by assistant professor ... capture,” says Kisuk Kang, a professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, who was not associated ...

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School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Virginia W. Cabot Professor on Sept. 13. Lynn W. Gelhar, of the Department of Civil and Environmental ... Computer Science, was named the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering on Sept. 13. ...

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New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts

1 million Americans, ranging from infants and older children to seniors. Now, MIT researchers have released ... Thomas Heldt, an associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering in the Department of ... associate professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and ...

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