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At Vicarious Surgical, Adam Sachs ’13 and Sammy Khalifa ’12 are developing small robots to make minimally invasive surgery available to more patients. “The ideal form is to miniaturize yourself, go through that small incision, and go inside the patient,” Khalifa says. Apr 23, 2022 Full story Watch videoShare: Twitter Facebook Explore more spotlights
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CLIMATE ACTION
On Thursday, MIT celebrated the most promising concepts to emerge from its two-year Climate Grand Challenges competition. “People are now sensing a much greater urgency to finding solutions,” said Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
AROUND CAMPUS
Through the year-long MCSC Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program, students have the opportunity to lead research projects. “We need to motivate an all-hands effort to bring MIT talent to bear on these challenges,” Desiree Plata says.
Photo of Noya cofounders Josh Santos and Daniel Cavero
ALUMNI IN ACTION
With his startup Noya, Josh Santos ’14 aims to use existing cooling towers to remove billions of tons of carbon per year from the air: “This technology has the potential … to clean up the damage we’ve done to the planet over the last 100 years.”
IN THE MEDIA
Jessika Trancik spoke with ABC News about the urgent need to build a future powered by alternative energy: “We now have cost-competitive renewable primary energy in the form of solar and wind energy and also in other types of renewable energy.”
RESEARCH NEWS
A new book examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our decisions. “Things that at first seem irrational, once you dig a little and think about what is being signaled, and ask the right questions, become a lot less puzzling,” Erez Yoeli says.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
Canan Dagdeviren and her team work to develop “mechanically adaptive” electronics that can flex and fit with any surface of the body, inside or out. The group’s goal is to design medical devices that “can conform to your brain wrinkles, or the wrinkles on your face,” she says.
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