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AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing pe…
Humans regularly navigate an overwhelming amount of information via text media, whether reading articles, browsing social media, or interac…
AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of person’s cognitive states available in different form-factors: glass…
Helping communities gather the geospatial data behind a working address and census system.
Novel Bioelectronic Therapy for Incurable Cancer
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
City Science @ San Francisco (CS@SF), under development, is a civic initiative actively seeking support to launch the lab and to…
Following decades of research in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces, one of the most common questions has remained remarkably consi…
NeuroDatasets is tool, where one can browse and find all available neuroscience datasets for all major modalities: EEG, MRI, MEG, NIRS, PET…
SensorTape is a modular and dense sensor network in a form factor of a tape. SensorTape is composed of interconnected and programmable sens…
We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, and …
NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thickne…
Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the materi…
Presenting a novel algorithm that allows filling of arbitrary shapes with interlocking, procedurally generated floral patterns, with applic…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
The problem: misinformation you hear, not readMost fact-checking tools were built for text, for example, a headline you can pause on, a pos…
Emergence brings together more than a decade of CityScope research into a practical emergency-response platform for cities under stress. Th…
Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…
Our sleep improvement app is now available for Android watches. Click here to try it!Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating t…
Expressive Performance for Body-Mind WellbeingThe Vocal Vibrations music is now available for exclusive download from Bowers & Wilkins.…
The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…
Breathing Window is a tool for non-verbal dialogue that reflects on your own breathing while also offering a window on another person's res…
Consider each of our individual voices as a flashlight to illuminate how we project ourselves in society and how much sonic space we give o…
Sound Cycles is a new interface for exploring, re-mixing, and composing with large volumes of audio content. The project presents a simple …
Nothing is more important in today's troubled world than the process of eliminating prejudice and misunderstanding, and replacing them with…
Fablur explores the limit of the self in its relationship to others through the medium of clothing. The augmented gown uses a rear dome pro…
We are transforming a classic music jewelry box into a digital memory box and Skype portal that enable those not familiar with technology t…
SNaSI (Social Navigation through Subtle Interactions) is a wearable system to help blind people in face-to-face interactions. Assistive sys…
ImmerSound is a virtual reality experience wherein one can compose music by drawing in 3D. The resulting composition is a sculpted soundsca…
Nebula is a voice-controlled interactive software app that allow users to conduct a choir of diverse vocal sounds by using only their voice…
Speech Companion is an exploration in the domain of real-time extraction of musicality from speech. Speech is one of the richest and most u…
Expressing the hidden things inside, working with one of the most fragile of media.Hand carved illuminated Hen, Duck, Blue Duck and Goose e…
What if buildings could actively bring sunlight inside right where people need it? Personal Sunlight is a robotically actuated mirror syste…
Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unarme…
Unspectacular Feed is a platform level chrome extension for the automatic detection and disclosure of AI generated content on social media.…
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
In fields where precision and logical coherence are non-negotiable, such as journalism, research, and law enforcement, the ability to reaso…
The AI and Human Flourishing Ecosystem Map is a living systems map that visualizes the global network of organizations, research institutio…
Overview From writing critique to setting goals, people increasingly turn to AI systems to support reflection and support in creative …
What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…
CoCo is a real-time co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remo…
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
Personal UI is a Chrome extension that empowers users to customize existing websites to suit their needs and preferences. Companies spend m…
Chaal is our proposal for the public space of Ghaf Woods, Dubai's first car-free forest community. At its heart is a sunken plaza with wate…
Local food systems face a growing challenge: while demand for sustainable and locally produced food is increasing, many small-scale produce…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mo…
The people who help you most don't just respond to what you say. They understand how you think.They know when you're likely to rush a decis…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Robots are already entering our cities, on sidewalks, in the skies, and behind the wheels of autonomous vehicles. Without intention and car…
Robots are already entering our cities, on sidewalks, in the skies, and behind the wheels of autonomous vehicles. Without intention and car…
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
Glyph is a wallet for credit cards with an e-ink display and two buttons. It connects to XR glasses and renders content pushed from them. T…
The data we collect about the physical world keeps growing. Generative models, cheaper compute, and better sensing are pushing dataset size…
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics ThroughTessellated Primitive Geometries3D printing onto pre-stretched fab…
As video generation models like Veo 3.1 and LTX-2 advance, their ability to accurately represent diverse global cultures remains a critical…
MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
American cities face growing tension among stakeholders whose priorities often conflict. Residents seek affordable housing and livable neig…
We show that LLMs can provide significantly more reliable explanations of sensor data when it receives contextual information about people,…
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.Thi…
New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Andorra Clone is a country-scale digital twin and scenario exploration platform being developed to help Andorra better understand and plan …
Executive SummaryPublic blockchains present a compelling opportunity for financial institutions (FIs) to access open, interoperable i…