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The MIT-Takeda Program concluded with 16 research papers, a patent, and almost 24 projects successfully completed.

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A cooperative effort within a community for advancement.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating with Roxbury, Massachusetts' Camfield Estates housing development for over a decade, helping to combat systemic racial disparities in housing. Led by Associate Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, a team from the MIT Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR) primarily focus their research on the impact of data and…

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Enhanced safety in the sky through autonomous helicopters.

In 2019 Haofeng "Hector" Xu, having a background in aerospace engineering and presently pursuing a PhD in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, started learning to fly helicopters. The experience, fraught with risk, led him to consider how helicopter flight could be made safer. In 2021 Xu founded Rotor Technologies, an autonomous helicopter company focused…

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Design Fellows for MAD 2024 have been revealed.

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) unveiled the 2024 Design Fellows at an event held at the MIT Museum on May 1, 2024. The Academy has continually supported MIT graduate students since its inception in 2022 by providing them with a fellowship enabling the pursuit of design research and projects, along with community-building. Interns…

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Improving safety in the skies through autonomous helicopters.

In 2019, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, a PhD student from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, decided to learn to fly helicopters, aiming to improve their safety. Two years later, he founded Rotor Technologies, Inc., an autonomous helicopter company addressing the risks that many pilots face, especially those involving small, private aircraft in the United States. Rotor…

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Enhancing sky safety with autonomous helicopters.

In 2019, Haofeng (Hector) Xu, a PhD student at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began learning to fly helicopters. His experiences with various risks in the cockpit led to his motivation to make helicopter flight safer. Subsequently, in 2021, he established Rotor Technologies, Inc. This autonomous helicopter company aims to retrofit existing helicopters with…

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More secure airspace through autonomous helicopters.

In late 2019, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, whilst pursuing his PhD in MIT’s aeronautics and astronautics department, took to learning to fly helicopters. After some near misses, he was inspired to make helicopter flight safer. This would be the foundation for his autonomous helicopter company, Rotor Technologies, Inc., established in 2021. The aim was to mitigate…

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