Spring 2023
PhD Student Wei-Chen Wang Is Moved to Help People Heal
Research draws on simulated robots to illuminate movement—knowledge that might someday help people come back from injury
Topics: Human Health
Spring 2023
Bionics Researchers Develop Technologies to Ease Pain and Transcend Human Limitations
Professor of media arts and sciences Hugh Herr SM ’93 and graduate student Christopher Shallal are working on next-generation biomimetic limbs
Spring 2023
Francesca Riccio-Ackerman Works to Improve Access to Prosthetics
PhD student is designing and building a sustainable care and delivery model in Sierra Leone
Spring 2023
Modeling the Marvelous Journey from A to B
Assistant Professor Nidhi Seethapathi seeks to understand why we move the way we do
Spring 2023
A Robotic Helping Hand for Aging in Place
Mechanical engineering professor Harry Asada works on tools that may be able to help elderly people retain their independence
Spring 2023
In the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, Capturing the Movements of Dancers Has Wide Applications
Characteristics of motion in dance can illuminate what it means to be efficient or fatigued in other domains
Fall 2022
Helping Organizations Learn from Turmoil
Dynamic work design takes a focused approach to tackling challenges
Fall 2022
Biologist Amy Keating Designs Proteins to Thwart Disease
Lab draws on advances in computational tools to explore creating proteins from scratch
Fall 2022
Inspired to Heal the Human Heart
Ellen Roche combines robotics, biologics to design cardiac devices
Fall 2022
Ritu Raman Is an Architect of Muscle and Nerve
Mechanical engineering professor designs motor control components to heal wounds and animate “soft” robots