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NailO: A thumbnail-mounted wireless trackpad
- Published_at:2015-04-16
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are developing a new, wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature, wireless track pad. NailO was inspired by the colorful stickers that people apply to their nails as a form of self-expression and...
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Parkinson's diagnosis by typing on a keyboard
- Published_at:2015-04-01
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: In a new study from MIT, researchers show how analyzing people's keystrokes as they type can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1Inaj5u) Using the researchers' algorithm for...
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Rainfall can release aerosols, high-speed video shows
- Published_at:2015-01-14
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Using high-speed cameras, MIT researchers observed that when a raindrop hits a surface, it traps tiny air bubbles at the point of contact. As in a glass of champagne, the bubbles then shoot upward, ultimately bursting from the drop in a fizz of...
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MIT Robotic Cheetah
- Published_at:2014-09-15
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they've successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1CZToFe) The key to the bounding algorithm is in programming each of the robot's legs to exert a certain...
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Recycling old batteries into solar cells
- Published_at:2014-08-13
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: A system proposed by researchers at MIT would recycle materials from discarded car batteries — a potential source of lead pollution — into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power. (Learn more:) Video courtesy of the researchers
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Magnetic Hair
- Published_at:2014-08-04
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: MIT engineers have fabricated a new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures that tilt in response to a magnetic field. (Learn more about these structures: http://bit.ly/1y2E8SX) Depending on the field's orientation, the...
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7 Finger Robot
- Published_at:2014-07-17
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- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1tdPd2t) The device, worn around one's wrist, works essentially like two extra fingers adjacent to the pinky and thumb. The...
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Squishy Robots
- Published_at:2014-07-14
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: A new phase-changing material built from wax and foam developed by researchers at MIT is capable of switching between hard and soft states. Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1wlz4bn. Robots built from this material would be able to operate more like...
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Bake your own robot
- Published_at:2014-05-29
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Printable robots — those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers — have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. At this...
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Autonomous, self-contained soft robotic fish at MIT
- Published_at:2014-03-13
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- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Soft robots — which don't just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics. In the first issue of that...
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Small cubes that self-assemble
- Published_at:2013-10-03
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:MITNewsOffice
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- description: Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they're able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces. ...
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MIT's automated 'coach' helps with social interactions
- Published_at:2013-06-13
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- description: Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can...
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Microthrusters propel small satellites at MIT
- Published_at:2012-08-17
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:MITNewsOffice
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- tags: satellite, space, MIT, MITNewsOffice, solar, system, thrust, propulsion, cubesat, navigation, engines, research, aeronautics, astronautics, department, students, faculty
- description: A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resemblance to today's bulky satellite engines, which are...
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Soft autonomous earthworm robot at MIT
- Published_at:2012-08-09
- Category:Science & Technology
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- tags: Earthworm, Robotics, Robot (Collection Category), nature, MIT, MITNewsOffice
- description: Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around,...
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Mimicking vocal cord vibrations
- Published_at:2011-07-13
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- Channel:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- description: Researchers at MIT and MGH have developed a polymer gel that mimics the vibrations of human vocal cords. This video shows the polymer vocal cord model vibrating when air is blown from below, and a comparison with human vocal cords.
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