Mechanical engineers are building a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent falls as they move around their homes. Eldercare is “an unexplored frontier in America, but also an intrinsically interesting challenge for robotics,” Roberto Bolli says.
Supporting US Army missions, MIT Lincoln Laboratory's new radar system, WiSPR, extends signal range for long-distance radar and communication. “Much innovation is happening in the commercial sector, and we leveraged those advances,” Greg Lyons says.
Biologists discovered a set of peptides found only in pancreatic tumors, which produce “one of the most challenging cancers to treat,” Tyler Jacks says. “This study identifies an unexpected vulnerability in pancreas cancer cells that we may be able to exploit.”
John Urschel spoke with the Guardian about leaving his career as a guard for the Baltimore Ravens to focus on his love of math at MIT: “I missed talking math with people, learning things, being around other people who like … math-related issues."
Andy Obst ’90 and his wife, Mary Anne, invent and manufacture medical devices for patients with hard-to-treat wounds. At MIT, he says, he learned “how to execute and just get the work done. If there was a deadline, you had to hit it.”
Canan Dagdeviren spoke with NBC Boston about her work on a wearable ultrasound scanner allowing earlier breast cancer detection. “Our hope [is to] collect a lot of data and use AI to predict what will happen to breast tissue over time,” she said.
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