Sand, sand everywhere
Senior Carrington Motley balances track and field with research on vehicle mobility in sand.
Department
Mechanical Engineering
A day in the sun
MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.
MIT joins $171M public-private consortium on manufacturing flexible electronics
Government, industry, and academia partner to bring new generation of electronics to commercial scale.
Bubble, bubble … boiling on the double
New analysis of textured surfaces could lead to more efficient, and less dangerous, power plants.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Seth Lloyd, leading quantum mechanics expert, appointed Nam P. Suh Professor
New professorship is a gift from MIT alumnus Hock Tan '75, SM '75.
Capturing cell growth in 3-D
Spinout’s microfluidics device better models how cancer and other cells interact in the body.
A bipedal robot with human reflexes
New human-machine interface keeps robot balanced, with human reflexes.
Giving robots a more nimble grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity.
A cheaper, high-performance prosthetic knee
Researchers design cheap prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion.
How to look for a few good catalysts
New research shows non-wetting surfaces promote chemical reaction rates.
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.
Making clean, high-quality fuels from low-quality oil
New insights into a promising approach to fuel production that would reduce costs, energy use, and carbon dioxide emissions.