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Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
EYEDEN (Eye-inspired Yielding Ecosystem for Deep-space Exploration and Nutrition) has been developed within the framework of the NASA Mars …
The Event Horizon Pavilion translates the physics of a rotating black hole into an architectural, luminous, and sonic installation. Combini…
City Science @ San Francisco (CS@SF), under development, is a civic initiative actively seeking support to launch the lab and to…
Smello World is a biological “Hello World”: an experiment that encodes a short digital message into DNA and uses RNA logic in engineered E.…
What does it mean to give artificial intelligence a body? Not a body in the fleshy sense, or even a humanoid shell, but a form through whic…
The first open benchmark measuring AI's impact on human well-being across physical, psychological, and societal dimensions.Measuring AI's i…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, prisoners chained to a wall perceive only shadows—and mistake them for reality. We extend this concept in …
Social Simulation vs. The Real Future.Social simulation is now a product. Evaluation still has no common standard.Persona-prompted populati…
We are living through a moment saturated with anxiety: fear of AI replacing human labor, deepening political divisions, war, displacement, …
Gadfly is an AI voice agent that enriches class discussions with well-placed provocations and questions. In practice, it: Listens to a…
Heatmap is a tool to help qualitative researchers identify and curate significant moments from large corpuses of recorded conversation audi…
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
filescape is a next-generation file explorer designed to reimagine the way you interact with your personal files.Files are arrayed as …
The data we collect about the physical world keeps growing. Generative models, cheaper compute, and better sensing are pushing dataset size…
The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…
Students are adopting LLMs at scale. This poses a question: does unrestricted AI access bypass the cognitive effort required for learn…
Helping communities gather the geospatial data behind a working address and census system.
American cities face growing tension among stakeholders whose priorities often conflict. Residents seek affordable housing and livable neig…
Andorra Clone is a country-scale digital twin and scenario exploration platform being developed to help Andorra better understand and plan …
Production machine learning (ML) stacks often split graph compilation and kernel execution across different layers and languages,…
NeuroDatasets is tool, where one can browse and find all available neuroscience datasets for all major modalities: EEG, MRI, MEG, NIRS, PET…
Emergence brings together more than a decade of research into practical emergency-response platforms for cities under stress. The appr…
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Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need huma…
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…
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…
Following decades of research in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces, one of the most common questions has remained remarkably consi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Executive SummaryPublic blockchains present a compelling opportunity for financial institutions (FIs) to access open, interoperable i…
Speculating on life in Zero G, with magnetic cloths that dock us to give us a sense of gravity.
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
The project aims to reduce CO₂ emissions related to mobility. It focuses on supporting local governments in making informed decisions about…