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August 17, 2023 Navarre Bartz 6 Views 3d printer filament, CSAIL, FDM, infrared, infraredtags, ir, label, machine readable, machine vision, mit, mit csail, qr code

Fluorescent Filament Makes Object Identification Easier

QR codes are a handy way to embed information, but they aren’t exactly pretty. New work from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have a new way to

Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying

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January 28, 2023 Navarre Bartz 165 Views 3d printed, 3D printed propeller, drone propeller, drones, mit, MIT lincoln lab, prop, propeller

Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying

Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller

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June 23, 2022 Al Williams 236 Views mit, robot

Design Your Next Robot Hand in Minutes

MIT complains that designing a robot hand is time-consuming and takes a lot of iterations. They want to improve that using a unique approach by giving a modular hand tactile

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February 7, 2022 Al Williams 295 Views Chemistry, mit, polymers

As Light as Plastic; As Strong as Steel

Chemical engineers at MIT have pulled off something that was once thought impossible. By polymerizing material in two different directions at once, they have created a polymer that is very