'Cheetah' robot's first run
'Cheetah' robot's first run
A “cheetah” robot designed at MIT may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency: In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that it wastes very little energy as it trots continuously for up to an hour and a half.
MIT visualizes how the brain loses and regains consciousness
MIT visualizes how the brain loses and regains consciousness
This array of videos shows spectrographic data (representing brain wave frequencies) from each of 44 electrodes attached to the scalp of a healthy volunteer undergoing propofol anesthesia. The spectrograms are arranged according to their approximate position on the ...
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
A team of MIT researchers has found a coating that outperforms others not only in preventing foggy buildups, but also in maintaining good optical properties without distortion.
MIT Professional Education Advanced Study Program
MIT Professional Education Advanced Study Program
A flexible option for professionals to take courses at MIT With science and technology evolving at an unprecedented pace, The MIT Professional Education - Advanced Study Program offers professionals from around the world in industry and government the opportunity to: ...
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.
A Quick Tour of Windows 8
A Quick Tour of Windows 8
An overview of the user experience design of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
My video submission for the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention, describing a novel mechanism to increase the safety of puncture access procedures.
Scanning droplets
Scanning droplets
Animation showing how the base of a water droplet forms small "necks" as it moves across a surface that has pillars etched on it.
MacDowell, Sea Pieces, op. 55, no. 1: To The Sea
MacDowell, Sea Pieces, op. 55, no. 1: To The Sea
PhonCD M148 piamu a v.1 Edward MacDowell Piano Music vol. 1 James Barbagallo, piano
Webinar: Ocean Transportation Reliability: Myths, ...
Webinar: Ocean Transportation Reliability: Myths, Realities, and Impacts
MIT CTL Advances in Supply Chain Management Webinar Series: Ocean Transportation Reliability: Myths, Realities, and Impacts Most supply chains are global to some degree, which means that you are probably managing a complicated transportation network that crosses a ...
Fundamentals of Boiling
Fundamentals of Boiling
Research from Professor Jacopo Buongiorno's lab showing the 2D time-dependent temperature distribution on an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) heater, laid over a transparent sapphire substrate.
6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition 2013
6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition 2013
A recording of the webcast of the competition, which took place on Jan. 30, 2013.
Revealing invisible changes in the world
Revealing invisible changes in the world
A CSAIL team — graduate students Michael Rubinstein and Neal Wadhwa, alumni Eugene Shih SM '01, PhD '10 and Hao-Yu Wu MNG '12, associate professor Frédo Durand, and professors William T. Freeman and John Guttag — earned honorable mention for this video at the 10th annual ...
Applying a Complex System Architecture Evaluation Method to ...
Applying a Complex System Architecture Evaluation Method to the 2005 Ford ...
About the Presentation Through painful experience, many companies have learned that they cannot develop a way out of an architecture issue that is uncovered late in the product development process, such as in the verification (hardware and tooling) stage. If a company ...
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in ...
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes
Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.
Water-repellent surfaces that last
Water-repellent surfaces that last
Ceramic forms of hydrophobic materials could be far more durable than existing coatings or surface treatments.
Asymptotically Optimal Motion Planning for Dynamical ...
Asymptotically Optimal Motion Planning for Dynamical Systems, presented by ...
MIT EECS - Draper Laboratory Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Gustavo Goretkin presented his project titled "Asymptotically Optimal Motion Planning for Dynamical Systems" at the Dec. 6, 2012 SuperUROP poster session held at the MIT Grier Room, 34-401. Mr. ...
Low Energy Radio for Vital Signs Transmission from the Ear ...
Low Energy Radio for Vital Signs Transmission from the Ear to a ...
MIT EECS - Analog Devices Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Lyne Tchapmi Petse presented her SuperUROP project titled "Low Energy Radio for Vital Signs Transmission from the Ear to a Smart-phone" at the Dec. 6, 2012, SuperUROP poster session at the MIT ...