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A close up of the 6dot Braille Labeler, a device created by MIT students to enable blind or visually impaired people to make labels for objects easily and inexpensively.

Braille made simple

MIT students develop device that could make labeling easier for the visually impaired. Product could be on the market next year.

Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide emissions at coal-burning power plants.

Concentrating emissions

Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.

Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi holds two robotic fishes he designed with recent PhD student Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado. The sleek robots can more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go.

Fish and chips

New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.

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