[Editors] MechE Newsletter: Robotics in the 21st Century

[Alissa Mallinson]

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Feature Story: Building Robots for the People<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118543&eid=376655>
The robots being designed today in MechE aren’t the manifest fantasies of Hollywood writers but rather complex machines built to make people’s lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable.

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Alumni Spotlight: Hugh Herr (SM ‘93), MIT Media Lab<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118541&eid=376655>
An associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Professor Herr is building sophisticated devices that aid human movement by mimicking nature.

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Faculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118539&eid=376655>
Professor Hogan and Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs designed the Anklebot to train and strengthen lower-extremity muscles in a “cooperative” fashion, sensing a person’s ankle strength and adjusting its force accordingly.

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118537&eid=376655>
All you have to do is think about it. Or at least that’s what it would look like to someone watching you use the robotic finger system that PhD student Faye Wu is designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab.

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118535&eid=376655>
Professor Alberto Rodriguez talks shop about designing a dexterous robot that can pick up an object from a group of objects and his focus on the “last inch.”

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Read More:
Faculty Research<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118534&eid=376655>: Professor Anette Hosoi's Squishy Robots
Alumni Spotlight<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118533&eid=376655>: Helen Greiner, CEO, CyPhy Works (co-founder of iRobot)
Student Spotlight<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=118532&eid=376655>: PhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)
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