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Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The FibeRobo project won gold in the Textile & Materials / New Technology Fabrics category.
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
Developed by a multidisciplinary team led by Media Lab student Jack Forman, FibeRobo is a low-cost, programmable, shape-shifting fiber.
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
Aguahoja II builds upon the platform technology of its predecessor, enabling large-scale multi-material 3D printing with abundant, organic …
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…
The Road to 2050, a six-part docuseries from The Franklin Institute, examines the ways that today's technology will shape the future.
Spinoff Learning Beautiful develops education materials that encourage kids to explore computer science concepts through physical learning.
Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
Neri Oxman talks about the Nature x Humanity exhibit at SFMOMA, which features current and past research from the Mediated Matter group
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respiratory…
Inspired by the human ear, a new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals.
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design acro…
Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes for…
The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display a…
Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living d…
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level. …
Spinoff OPT Industries is scaling up production of novel metamaterials, such as swabs for Covid-19 testing.
Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
AZoM talks to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, a visiting doctoral student in the Tangible Media group, about her work on the OmniFiber project.
Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
We have developed tightly coupled sensor network that tries to mimic some of the sensory characteristics of a natural skin. Developed in a …
Wicaksono, I.*, Cherston, J.*, & Paradiso, J. A. (2021). Electronic Textile Gaia: Ubiquitous Computational Substrates Across Geometric Scales. IEEE Pervasive Computing.
What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of o…
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductive …
Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical pro…
The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary st…
How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with s…
Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols. A…
French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. Con…
Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays wi…
Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc.,…
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media agn…
Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.
Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze syst…
Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.
Andrea Ling, an alum of the Mediated Matter group, has won the Grand Prize in Artistic Exploration at this year's festival.
Canadian architect and installation artist Andrea Ling has received the 2020 STARTS Grand Prize in the category of Artistic Exploration.
Chee, G*., Cobb, T.*, Richter-Lunn, K.*, Wicaksono, I.*, and Freedman, B.R., 2020. Doze: Hydrogel-Based Epidermal Platform for Personalized Scent Diffusion. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
The exhibition has now become a part of the MoMA's ‘Virtual Views’ program due to the pandemic.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"
The control of living systems as part of design interfaces is of interest to both the scientific and design communities due to the ability …