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Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures (pictured) may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
Thinner than...
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Built with multifunctional appendages able to spin wheels that can also be “wiggled” and lifted, the Mini Rover was modeled on a novel NASA rover design and used in the laboratory to develop and test complex locomotion techniques robust enough to help it climb hills composed of granular material, here ordinar...
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Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to offer robots that are more adaptable. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
MIT alumnus-founded RightHand Robotics has developed picking robots that are more reliable and adaptable in warehouse environments.
For most people, the ta...
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08-29
The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the bloodstream from entering the brain — can be damaged by the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine...
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08-28
A new manufacturing process produces strips of graphene, at large scale, for use in membrane technologies and other applications.
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality...
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08-27
Engineers at Johns Hopkins are studying butterflies using high-speed video cameras to gain a better understand of their flight dynamics. With funding from U.S. defense agencies, the researchers hope to use this knowledge to create micro...
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08-27
MIT researchers have developed a new platform for microfluidics, using LEGO bricks. Shown here, fluid flows through tiny channels milled into the side walls of LEGO bricks. Image: Melanie Gonick/MIT
MIT engineers have just introduced a...
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08-26
(Top) A utility vehicle equipped with a laser range finder drives through a field, avoiding obstacles without human intervention. (Bottom) A driver setup tests humans’ response to a new semiautonomous safety system. Photo: Sterling And...
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08-24
Engineers from Yale University have discovered a method for creating a new kind of metallic glass, a class of materials made from complex alloys.
By shrinking samples of metallic glass to nanoscale size, Yale scientists have discovered...
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08-24
Graphene remains the strongest material ever measured and, as Professor Hone once put it, so strong that “it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.” Illustration ...
Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures (pictured) may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Thinner than...
Built with multifunctional appendages able to spin wheels that can also be “wiggled” and lifted, the Mini Rover was modeled on a novel NASA rover design and used in the laboratory to develop and test complex locomotion techniques robust enough to help it climb hills composed of granular material, here ordinar...
Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to offer robots that are more adaptable. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers MIT alumnus-founded RightHand Robotics has developed picking robots that are more reliable and adaptable in warehouse environments. For most people, the ta...
The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the bloodstream from entering the brain — can be damaged by the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine...
A new manufacturing process produces strips of graphene, at large scale, for use in membrane technologies and other applications. MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality...
Engineers at Johns Hopkins are studying butterflies using high-speed video cameras to gain a better understand of their flight dynamics. With funding from U.S. defense agencies, the researchers hope to use this knowledge to create micro...
MIT researchers have developed a new platform for microfluidics, using LEGO bricks. Shown here, fluid flows through tiny channels milled into the side walls of LEGO bricks. Image: Melanie Gonick/MIT MIT engineers have just introduced a...
(Top) A utility vehicle equipped with a laser range finder drives through a field, avoiding obstacles without human intervention. (Bottom) A driver setup tests humans’ response to a new semiautonomous safety system. Photo: Sterling And...
Engineers from Yale University have discovered a method for creating a new kind of metallic glass, a class of materials made from complex alloys. By shrinking samples of metallic glass to nanoscale size, Yale scientists have discovered...
Graphene remains the strongest material ever measured and, as Professor Hone once put it, so strong that “it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.” Illustration ...
