LocationMIT Media Lab, E14, Third Floor DescriptionWhat’s a CyborgCamp?CyborgCamps are small, in-depth unconferences about the future of th…

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Our aim is to shed light on the importance of experiential integration and provide researchers with a scientifically driven foundation for

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Will we all be cyborgs one day? Hugh Herr says he has the answer.

Virtual MIT Space Week: Beyond the Cradle 2021We explore the vision of closed-loop bio-digital interfaces for human augmentation, where the…

While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.

D. Sarkar, "From Green Electronics to Gray Matter and Cyborg Cells," in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 22-25, Febraury 2023, doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2022.3228095.

Our celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon continues into the night with a 21+ over-the-moon event. Sp…

The glowing lily is one of Harpreet Sareen’s botanical “cyborgs”—vegetation he biohacks to serve as environmental watchdogs.

LocationOnline Description

Harpreet Sareen, Jiefu Zheng, and Pattie Maes. 2019. Cyborg Botany: Augmented Plants as Sensors, Displays and Actuators. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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Because old-school surgical amputation hasn’t kept up with modern-day medicine.

The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.

Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes. 2019. Cyborg Botany: Exploring In-Planta Cybernetic Systems for Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA

LocationSebastopol, CA Description

The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organiza…

March 17, 2017 - MIT Media Lab's DuoSkin won the SciFi No Longer prize at the 2017 SXSW Innovation Awards.

A Parsons and MIT researcher hooked up electrodes to a plant’s leaves to turn it into a robotic sensor.

“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”

Sareen is a research affiliate within the Fluid Interfaces group, and worked with lab founder Pattie Maes to develop the project.

To foster and better understand collaboration in the Scratch Online Community, we created Collab Camp, a month-long event in which Scratch …

6月26日（土）4:00-5:00pm（日本）NTTデータ + Personal Robots + Signal Kinetics「JiboとRFID技術で実現する“親しみのある”IT服薬サポート」発表者：吉田 英嗣 (NTT DATA) 、大杉 直樹博士 (NTT DATA)…

6月25日（金）4:00-5:00pm （日本）凸版印刷株式会社 + Figur8 (MIT スピンアウト）「身体動作評価に基くエビデンス・ベースのパーソナル・ケア・サービスの開発」発表者：鈴木剛史（Toppan) 、田邉 集 (Toppan)キーワード: ウェルビーイング、ヘ…

Friday, June 25 at 20:00-21:00 (JST) / 7:00-8:00 (EDT)Shima Seiki Mfg, Ltd. 「ゼロ・ロス・ファッション〜未来のためのものづくり」6月25日（金）8:00-9:00pm （日本）// 7:00-8:00a…

【合計で4つの物理的セッションの開催をいたします】Saturday, June 26 at 10:00am-12:30pm (JST) and 2:00-5:00pm (JST)Sunday, June 27 at 10:00am-12:30pm (JST) and 2:00-…

6月26日（土）9:00-10:00pm（日本）// 8:00-9:00am （ボストン）MIT特別セッション III「Mens et Manus -心と手-：好奇心駆動で自らの手で未来を創り続けること」発表者：中垣 拳（MIT Media Lab 博士後期課程) キーワード:…

6月19日（土）5:00-6:00pm （日本）MIT特別セッション I：「海外雄飛・他流試合・異文化協創」発表者：石井裕 (MIT Media Lab 副所長)キーワード: 異文化体験、国際化、自己実現、研究者セッション：聴講型（講演30分＋Q&A 20分）言語：日本…

6月19日（土）9:00-10:00pm（日本）// 8:00-9:00am （ボストン）MIT特別セッション II　「 (都市に) 最終的なゴールはありません」発表者：酒井康史（MIT Media Lab 博士後期課程) キーワード: 集団的合意形成、リミックス、デザインセッ…

A new type of leadership development for the social sector.

Introducing Elowan, a robot-plant hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes, both from MIT Media Lab.

Session 1 (6/18): Kioxia, NHK, SynthNeuro

Event Platform - Pathable: Instructionこの度は、Media Lab Summer Camp 2021 にご登録を下さり、誠にありがとうございます。Event Platform (Pathable: パサブル）からの招待メールを受領いただ…

6月19日（土）3:00-4:00pm （日本）日本電気株式会社 + Affective Computing (MIT)「ウェルビーイングの向上〜明日のストレス、健康度、幸福度の予想〜」発表者：梅松旭美 (NEC)、ロザリンド・ピカード教授（MIT）、サイモン・フェダー博士 (…

6月18日（金）9:00-10:00pm （日本）// 8:00-9:00am (ボストン）キオクシア株式会社 + NHK + Synthetic Neurobiology (MIT)　「データストレージで脳に挑む」発表者：坂東洋介博士 (Kioxia)、金谷美加（NHK）、エ…

6月26日（土）7:30-9:00pm（日本）// 6:30-8:00am （ボストン）都市未来デザイン〜データと審議を通したまちづくり〜　パナソニック株式会社 ＋ City Science発表者：山崎菜々子（パナソニック株式会社）、酒井康史（City Science) キーワ…

H. Herr, G. P. Whiteley, and D. Childress. Chapter 5: Cyborg Technology – Biomimetic Orthotic and Prosthetic Technology, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, 2003.

Dr. Gladys Ngetich speaks at the 2021 Digigirlz event being held to celebrate World Engineering Day and to inspire young women in STEM.

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…

​Media Lab Summer Camp in Japan「将来、MITで学びたい・教えたい？ 世界を舞台にコラボしたい？」メディアラボでは、この夏、業界を超えたコラボレーションを通して社会課題に取り組んだ活動や経験を中高生達に共有するセッションを開催します。セッションは、…

"During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today."

6月18日（金）9:00-10:00pm （日本）// 8:00-9:00am (ボストン）キオクシア株式会社 + NHK + Synthetic Neurobiology (MIT)　「データストレージで脳に挑む」発表者：坂東洋介博士 (Kioxia)、金谷美加（NHK）、エ…

Human and Artificial Intelligence in Decision Systems for Social DevelopmentIn this two-part thesis, I investigate and discuss the transfor…

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

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This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…

Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.

Vogue reports on the collaboration between Pangaia and Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs.

Pandey, D. "UniPlug: A Framework For Ad-hoc Invention Sharing Over A Campus Network"

Neo Mohsenvand and filmmaker/singer/songwriter Hannah Campbell contemplate memory, data, and the future at TEDxYouth@CEHS.

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Shifting the narrative away from the issue being purely a law and order problem

Here’s why the #MeToo campaign should be looked at as an important moment reflecting a collective experience.

Balsa-Barreiro, José, Txomin Hermosilla, and Rubén C. Lois-González. 2014. La campaña de incendios de 2006 en Galicia: Un análisis del cambio en el modelo de distribución espacial de la actividad incendiaria. Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles 64: 81-100.

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Kazansky, Y., D. Wood and J. Sutherlun, “The Current and Potential Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in the Campaign Against Malaria,” Acta Astronautica, Vol 121, April – May 2016, Pages 292-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.09.021

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