Contact-aware robot design
A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.
Creating “digital twins” at scale
Model could help predictive virtual models become standard practice in engineering.
Automating material-matching for movies and video games
Animators spend hours adding textures to objects. A new machine-learning system simplifies the process.
How to grow a cosmic magnetic field
Graduate student Muni Zhou shows how tiny magnetic seed fields can expand to cosmic proportions.
Better simulation meshes well for design software (and more)
New work on 2D and 3D meshing aims to address challenges with some of today’s state-of-the-art methods.
Photorealistic simulator made MIT robot racing competition a live online experience
Teaching assistants in Robotics: Science and Systems pulled out all the stops to help engineering students race across the finish line this spring.
Scrutinizing radiation’s impact
Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.
Untangling how cables coil
A simulation technology from movies is used to predict coiling patterns in the lab.
Unlocking the potential of simulation software
Novel software by Akselos drastically increases speed, ease of 3-D engineering simulations.
The moon’s face doesn’t tell its whole story
Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
El Niño cycle has a big effect on a major greenhouse gas
Nitrous oxide emissions decrease during El Niño, increase during La Niña.
Terramechanics research aims to keep Mars rovers rolling
Simulations predict safest path for rovers to travel.
Bigger storms ahead
With global warming, a study finds, tropical cyclones may become more frequent and intense.
Aircraft engineered with failure in mind may last longer
New design approach tailors planes to fly in the face of likely failures.
Nuclear science and engineering graduate students win NEUP fellowships
Black, Boyd and Shaner among 31 recipients