Article

These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.

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Structural Analysis of Musical Signals for Indexing and Thumbnailing

A musical piece typically has a repetitive structure. Analysis of this structure will be useful for music segmentation, indexing, and thumb…

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Pentland 061820 JME02

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Thursday
June 18, 2020
Event

Fall 2020 OOLE INT02

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on remote collaboration, we will extract the attendance log…

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
Event

Asia Project 071020 BCP02

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Friday
July 10, 2020
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Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

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Jonathan Richards

Administrative Assistant

Article

Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

A research team, including members of the Biomechatronics group, devises a new surgery for hand amputations and prostheses.

Publication

A Virtual Muscle Model of the Arm for EMG-Driven Control of Prostheses

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Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

Article

E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines

Media Lab spinoff E Ink’s new generation of color displays were introduced at CES 2023.

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Advancing Wellbeing

In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

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Joseph A. Paradiso

Alexander W Dreyfoos (1954) Professor; Associate Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Article

Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

Video

MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley

IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

July 23, 2013
Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.

Event

The Future of Therapeutics, AI, and Beyond

Agenda for Monday, February 26, 2024 (Agendas are subject to change)This event is by invitation only, and a referral by Media Lab member co…

Monday
February 26, 2024
10:30am — 5:30pm ET
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Network Computing Systems

Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…

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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…

Article

‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Video

Robert Stickgold - Sleep, Memory and Psychiatric Health

ABSTRACTSleep plays a critical role in normal memory processing and mental health, beyond its obvious role in helping us maintain attention

Publication

Experiments with a Robotic Computer Body Affect and Cognition Interactions

Cynthia Breazeal, Wang A., Rosalind W. Picard

Event

CityScienceLab @ TaipeiTech Opening Ceremony / 【臺北科大城市科學實驗室】掛牌典禮

In celebrating the inauguration of the City Science Lab @TaipeiTech, a cooperation between National Taipei University of Technology and MIT…

Thursday
November 30, 2017
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
Publication

Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations

Yan, W., Noel, G., Loke, G., Meiklejohn, E., Khiduyev, T., Marion, J., Rui, G., Lin, J., Cherston, J., Saharasbudhe, A., Wilbert, J., Wicaksono, I., Hoyt, R.W., Missakian, A., Zhu, L., Ma, C., Joannopoulos, J., and Fink, Y. Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04476-9

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Arnaud Grignard

Former Research Affiliate

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DayDreamNight

Produced in collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group.

Event

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Development to Improve Public Health

This event will bring together select leaders and innovators from academia, industry, and government.

Tuesday
October 10, 2017
Video

Here be Dragons, Track B

Our Thriving Ocean, Platforms and Sensors, Democratizing the Ocean