The MIT Edgerton Center’s third annual showcase dazzles onlookers
Fourteen Edgerton Center student-led engineering teams displayed their latest creations, from solar cars to rockets to assistive eating devices.
Fourteen Edgerton Center student-led engineering teams displayed their latest creations, from solar cars to rockets to assistive eating devices.
Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification.
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.
Former co-director of the Office of Government and Community Relations is remembered for his care and compassion.
With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality.
The machine-learning method works on most mobile devices and could be expanded to assess other motor disorders outside of the doctor’s office.
A new dataset can help scientists develop automatic systems that generate richer, more descriptive captions for online charts.
Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold.
Project helps make learning more accessible for children with multiple disabilities.
Recent alumnus James Hermus wants to help others overcome barriers to accessibility and full participation.
MIT’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening and expanding the orthotic and prosthetic sector within the African nation.
Students pitched prototypes for a sea turtle incubator, a wheelchair speed control, a self-cleaning firehose system, and more.
The new design works with the diaphragm to improve breathing.
Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
Researchers have created prototypes that enable screen-reader users to quickly and easily navigate through multiple levels of information in an online chart.