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Big data dreams for tiny technologies
Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is also a senior author ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT researchers, including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso, have developed ... small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Russ Tedrake and a team of researchers have developed ... 1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ... box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... on a paper about MouthIO who is now an assistant professor at Aarhus University. “This compact, humid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsDroplets get a charge out of jumping
In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ... postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingHarder, better, faster, stronger
a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ... shrug at. MIT's team passed all inspections, placed fourth in vehicle cost (spending the least ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harder-better-faster-strongerPowered by the sun
On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunAccelerating the pace of engineering
company sold its very first order — 10 copies of its first product, MATLAB — to MIT. Decades later, ... engineers across MIT and around the world consistently rely on MathWorks products to accelerate the pace of ... and MIT’s digital learning efforts across campus, including the Department of Mathematics, one of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-pace-engineeringMaking life friendlier with personal robots
the founder of the Personal Robots Group (PRG) and the social robot startup Jibo Inc., MIT Professor ... Alghowinem says she dreamed of coming to MIT one day to develop Arabic-based technologies, and of creating ... MIT as a postdoc with the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, which is housed in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-life-friendlier-personal-robotsGetting a charge out of water droplets
Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... condenses from warm, humid air on the outside of a cold glass. Chuanhua Duan, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsExcitons observed in action for the first time
exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed. Now scientists at MIT and the City ... journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by MIT postdocs Gleb Akselrod and Parag Deotare, ... professors Vladimir Bulovic and Marc Baldo, and four others. “This is the first direct observation of exciton ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excitons-observed-action-first-timeIlluminating a complex disease
Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... the Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT to study endometriosis and similar diseases. One of the ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... that could prevent it,” says Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biology and ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... (HAUV), originally developed as part of MIT’s Sea Grant program. The technology has since been ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesLearning to Solve
experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and EECS department head. “It is amazing ... Peraire, AeroAstro department head and the H.N. Slater Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics. “When we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-ahead3-D printing with cellulose
paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes. The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... | MIT Startup Exchange Collaboration Horizontal PolyJoule, a startup co-founded by Professor Ian Hunter, ... storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveA new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ... Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov, and nine others. Oxygen evolution reactions are one of the reactions common ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-inexpensive-catalyst-speeds-production-oxygen-waterUnlocking new science with devices that control electric power
engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... completing his PhD, Mirvakili joined Institute Professor Bob Langer’s lab as a postdoc, where he worked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-new-science-devices-control-electric-power