Research Stories
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Over the course of four days, Indigenous delegates collaborated on immersive technology with MIT community members.
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Through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, the US Department of Defense supports research projects in areas of critical importance to national defense.
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The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery.
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A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstructions.
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Cagri Zaman uses immersive media to help people do everything from learning to play piano to learning how to handle heavy machinery.
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A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.
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A new method could provide detailed information about internal structures, voids, and cracks, based solely on data about exterior conditions.
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Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the pick-and-place robot adapts in the moment to get a better hold.
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The device would be a key component of a portable mass spectrometer that could help monitor pollutants, perform medical diagnoses in remote areas, or test Martian soil.
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The new diagnostic, which is based on analysis of urine samples, could also be designed to reveal whether a tumor has metastasized.