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“California blackworms tangle themselves up by the thousands, then separate in a split second. Their trick may inspire the design of self-detangling materials and fibers. As anyone who has ever unwound a string of holiday lights or detangled a lock …
“The device would be a key component of a portable mass spectrometer that could help monitor pollutants, perform medical diagnoses in remote areas, or test Martian soil. Mass spectrometers are extremely precise chemical analyzers that have many applications, from evaluating …
“Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold. When manipulating an arcade claw, a player can plan all she wants. But once she presses the joystick button …
“A new study shows that simple hand magnets erase a meteorite’s magnetic memory. Each year, thousands of space rocks pierce through the Earth’s atmosphere and hit the ground as meteorites. These fragments of comets and asteroids can land …
“With sustainability in mind, MIT’s EHS Lab Plastics Recycling Program gathers clean plastics from 212 MIT labs, recycling some 280 pounds per week. In 2019, MIT’s Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Office collaborated with several research labs in …
“Developed at MIT, D2X is a new tool that makes it easy to debug any domain-specific programming language. Sometime in 2019, MIT PhD student Ajay Brahmakshatriya formulated a simple, though still quite challenging, goal. He wanted to make it possible …
“A modeling framework developed at MIT can help speed the development of flow batteries for large-scale, long-duration electricity storage on the future grid. In the coming decades, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind will increasingly dominate the conventional …
““DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics. If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens …
“Researchers develop new, patient-friendly hydrogel platform for administering lifesaving biologics. Biologics, a class of therapeutics derived from living organisms, offer enormous advantages to patients battling challenging diseases and disorders. Treatments based on biologics can boost the immune system to stem …
“The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips. Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately …