LocationScience Museum, London DescriptionExplore this exhibition to discover how innovators are using 3D printers to turn computer data in…
Until now, we couldn’t print certain types of data models in 3D.
Generating 3D Lichtenberg structures in sintered media (i.e. glass) using electricity offers a new approach to digital fabrication. By robo…
How can additive fabrication technologies be scaled to building-sized construction? We introduce a novel method of mobile swarm printing th…
Computation and fabrication in biology occur in aqueous environments. Through on-chip mixing, analysis, and fabrication, microfluidic chips…
Functionally graded materials—materials with spatially varying composition or microstructure—are omnipresent in nature. From palm trees wit…
Renee Magritte's “Treachery of Images” highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a paint…
We are developing tomographic techniques for image synthesis on displays composed of compact volumes of light-attenuating material. Such vo…
Chris Ahern, who lost his foot and much of his leg below the knee after a motorcycle accident in 2006, places the remaining part of the lim…
We are developing a printer that builds functional, 3-D structures by reversible assembly of a discrete set of "digital materials." This ap…
Dominik Kolb
Rapid prototyping technologies speed product design by facilitating visualization and testing of prototypes. However, such machines are lim…
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe ability to pattern functional materials in planar and three-dimensional forms is of critical …
How can biological organisms be incorporated into product, fashion, and architectural design to enable the generation of multi-functional, …
Steven J. Keating
Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Liang Zhou, Gershon Dublon, Hiroshi Ishii
Jack Forman, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Hamilton Forsythe, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2020. DefeXtiles: 3D Printing Quasi-Woven Fabric via Under-Extrusion. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1222–1233. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3379337.3415876
Neri Oxman, Jorge Duro-Royo, Steven J. Keating, Benjamin Peters , Elizabeth Tsai
Elizabeth Tsai
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
Neri Oxman, Jared Laucks, Markus Kayser, Elizabeth Tsai, Michal Firstenberg
Elizabeth Tsai
Christoph Bader, Dominik Kolb, James Weaver, Neri Oxman
Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has become a unicorn.
Kim, T.I., Kim, M.J., Jung, Y.H., Jang, H., Dagdeviren, C., Pao, H.A., Cho, S.J., Carlson, A., Yu, K.J., Ameen, A., Chung, H.-j., Jin, S.H., Ma, Z., Rogers, J.A., Chemistry of Materials, 26(11), 3502–3507, 2014. [Cover Image]
A research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an immersive exhibit.
Ahmad, N., Dagdeviren, C., Rogers, J.A., Ferreira, P., IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 24(4), 1016 - 1028, 2015.
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and …
Tsai, E. Y. "4D Printing: Towards Biomimetic Additive Manufacturing"
In a given organization, thousands of pages of material are printed only to be read once and discarded. We are developing a desktop printer…
Yao Lining, Ou Jifei, Wang Guanyun, Cheng Chin-Yi, Wang Wen, Steiner Helene, Ishii Hiroshi
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specifyi…
Vogue reports on the collaboration between Pangaia and Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs.
Jara-Figueroa C, Yu AZ, Hidalgo CA (2019) How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0205771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205771
Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Amy Z. Yu, César A. Hidalgo, arXiv:1512.05020 [cs.CY]
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific imagi…
Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded.…
Proceeding CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 3669-3680 Denver, Colorado, USA — May 06 - 11, 2017 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017
LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionMonday is the last day for the MIT Media Lab Future Futures Lounge! Stop by to check out new wo…
Sareen, Harpreet, et al. "Printflatables: Printing Human-Scale, Functional and Dynamic Inflatable Objects." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River Description#MLSXSWDates: Friday March 7 thru Monday March 10 (11am - 5:30pm daily)Science ficti…
Sengeh, D. "Advanced Prototyping of Variable Impedance Prosthetic Sockets for Trans-tibial Amputees: Polyjet Matrix 3D Printing of Comfortable Prosthetic Sockets Using Digital Anatomical Data"
The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
Media Lab researchers invited to showcase their work at the Wall Street Journal's "Future of Everything" festival 2024.
Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Former Research Assistant
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.
Our goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.
LocationMoonshine Lounge DescriptionMake your own robot head with Sputniko! in preparation for the evening's Cosmodrome party!We'll provide…