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Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
Virtual reality creates a new perspective in storytelling and engagement.
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
Lower-extremity amputation surgery has not seen significant change since the Civil War. This research is focused on the development of no...
The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
Announcing nine new Director’s Fellows who'll bring their diverse experiences to the Media Lab.
Former prosecutor Adam Foss in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...
The reproductive organs of the female body have long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cult...
"We are creating the future; we are designing it; we are building the future."
We introduce Zensei, an implicit sensing system that leverages bio-sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to classify uninstrum...
Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.
Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact w...
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...
High-resolution imaging with conventional microscopes:Tissue-expansion technique could allow scientists to map brain circuits.
A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.
How Canan Dagdeviren is going about setting up a new research group at the Media Lab.
The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
Marshall Ganz in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
The following are Andy Lippman's opening remarks from the Media Lab's spring 2017 member meeting.
From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.
Calling on you to help track down those who challenge norms or laws for the good of society.
On July 21, 2016 we announced the creation of a $250K cash prize award for responsible disobedience. This idea came after a realization t...
Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
The power of nonviolent action is built on people's strength and capacity, as proven by protest movements across the globe.
The project investigates how to make origami structure with inflatables with various materials. We introduce a universal bending mechanis...
Joy Buolamwini wins a grand prize in a national contest inspired by the film Hidden Figures to support young women in STEM.
The City Symphony project is a recent Opera of the Future initiative that brings creative musical participation to everyone, while encour...
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? It's a hard question, especially when the decision will impact people ...
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.
Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combina...
By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...
Fadel Adib is directing Signal Kinetics, a new research group at the Media Lab.
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
DataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA makes availab...
Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures.
We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict...
We are currently developing novel DNA editing technologies to broaden the scope of genome engineering. Our strategy is based on identifyi...
Center for Extreme Bionics
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their ...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems—the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offl...