Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

“Cyborg” Pancreas Organoids Reveal How Cells Mature and Synchronize

One of the challenges in studying diabetes and developing new treatments is that the endocrine cells that control glucose — known as islets — are hard to monitor and study. They are tiny — much ...
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The Physics of a Squeak

Key Takeaways Squeaks from soft-on-rigid interfaces, like shoes on a smooth floor, are driven by opening slip pulses that rapidly detach and reattach the interface at near-supersonic speeds. The ...
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A More Accurate Measure of Calories Burned

Cho said he was particularly motivated to work on better methods for measuring physical activity due to large gaps in population-level data in many parts of the world, where smartwatches and other ...
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Halo Braid wins President’s Innovation Challenge grand prize

MS/MBA alum takes home $75,000 Yinka Ogunbiyi, MS/MBA '23, stood on the stage at Klarman Hall in 2023, recognized with an Ingenuity Award for early-stage start-ups at the President’s Innovation ...
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Alumni Profile: Nicholas Bobbs, S.B. '16

A pair of summer experiences showed Nicholas Bobbs what kind of engineer he wanted to be. In Nicaragua, where he spent a summer building solar panels and irrigation systems for an underserved ...
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The metalens meets the stars

Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now they are going bigger. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School ...
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3D Printing Soft Robots

Rotational multimaterial printing offers intricate, programmable shapes Key Takeaways Harvard engineers have developed a new 3D printing method for building soft robots that bend and change shape in ...
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Robots to help with human habitation in space

The gripper switches between three modes, which are suited to tasks that require maintaining a secure hold on an object or applying high pressure, precise finger positioning or in-hand manipulation, ...
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Out of the lab and into patients’ hands

In the Harvard Move Lab, mannequins don jackets decorated with electronics and hanging wires. Design drawings are scattered on workbenches, and sewing machines sit among fabric-filled cubbies labeled ...
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Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS and Boston University researchers used a soft, wearable robotic garment to eliminate gait-freezing episodes in a Parkinson’s disease patient, enabling longer, faster strides ...
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Soft robotic wearable restores arm function for people with ALS

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers developed a soft, fabric-based robotic wearable that uses inflatable actuators to assist upper arm and shoulder movement in ...
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Concerning levels of PFAS in fish miles away from large contamination source

Fish can accumulate high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), even far from sources of contamination, according to a new study by researchers at The Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...