People, Prosperity, and the Planet: Dava Newman @ MIT ESI Fireside Chat

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."

Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes

What does the future with a metaverse look like, and how will it impact us?

Nine Graduate Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars have been chosen by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Danielle Wood was quoted in an article exploring alternatives to strategies of conquest and settlement of the Moon and Mars.

The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab

The documentary Zero Gravity about the MIT Zero Robotics program, led by Danielle Wood, will be showing at the DOC NYC Film Festival.

Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.

Spinoff Graviky Labs has been listed as a winner in the Science Start-Ups category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.

Space Enabled members present their research at the world’s premier annual space event.

Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab.

In the Boston Globe, Media Lab director Dava Newman shares her vision for the future.

Congratulations to Media Lab professor Cynthia Breazeal on her joint appointment as senior associate dean of MIT Open Learning.

Epstein, Ziv, et al. "Social influence leads to the formation of diverse local trends." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5.CSCW2 (2021): 1-18.

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.

A research team including Fluid Interfaces group members Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes received the Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021.

Safinah Ali, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among the recipients of the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2022.

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

Sarah Beckmann, a communications coordinator, writes and edits content with the goal of promoting the Media Lab's unique research agenda.

This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.

The LEGO Prize is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children.

Pentland, Alex, Alexander Lipton, and Thomas Hardjono. "Building the New Economy." MIT Press.

Fernandez, S. V., Sadat, D., Tasnim, F., Acosta, D., Schwendeman, L., Shahsavari, S., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Ubiquitous Conformable Systems for Imperceptible Computing”, Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-07-2020-0067, 2021.

The superpose installation mediates continuously changing wave phenomena within a space that are visible, audible, and react to the prese...

Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning"

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

Ostrowski, A. K., Harrington, C.N., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults' Stories in the Design of Social Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 315.

Explore the Media Lab research presented at UbiComp 2021!

The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.

For the paper, “Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots"

City Science researcher Andres Rico reflects on his time participating in this past year's "How To Grow (Almost) Anything" (HTGAA) class.

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community.

MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman,...

The project pairs local poets of color with local scientists of color to create original poetry about the scientists’ work and experiences.

C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656

M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.

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

iCANX is a global innovation center aiming to disseminate cutting-edge technological innovation, and tap and train top innovative talents.

Gladys Ngetich is one of 25 students and young professionals chosen by the IAF Emerging Space Leaders Sub-Committee.

Economic segregation isn't just limited to neighborhoods; it's part of the places you visit every day.

Wicaksono, I.*, Cherston, J.*, & Paradiso, J. A. (2021). Electronic Textile Gaia: Ubiquitous Computational Substrates Across Geometric Scales. IEEE Pervasive Computing.

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Entrepreneurship class MAS.664 launches businesses with a global reach.

The 2021 School of Engineering Accenture Fellows are bolstering research and igniting ideas to help transform global business.

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.

The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science

E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).

climate change, sustainability, humanitarian actions, global development

The physicist, neuroscientist, and PhD candidate creates augmentative technology for children with neurodevelopmental differences.

Srinivasan hopes her work will help make using a prosthetic limb far more like the real thing.

MIT researchers are co-leading the design of a global Space Sustainability Rating system that will soon be operational.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!

Ten principal investigators from seven MIT departments and labs receive MIT J-WAFS seed grants, including Health 0.0 director Pratik Shah.

A critical question relevant to the increasing importance of crowd-sourced-based finance is how to optimize collective information proces...

For the paper titled: Dynamic Urban Planning: An Agent-based model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use Case Kendall Square.

Danielle Wood joins Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts: a global community of public and private sector innovators and entrepreneurs.

This has been an extraordinarily challenging period for all of you, and we couldn't be prouder of your accomplishments.

The President's Awards for Excellence in Research recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research.

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) has recently released its latest creative learning activity: Inflatables!

D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315

The Media Lab is experimenting with new ways to open up access to our research.