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.

Project

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…

Event

Park 062420 JME04J

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

Wednesday
June 24, 2020
Event

Fall 2020 OOLE INT04

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

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
Person

Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

Person

Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

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

Group

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.

Group

Advancing Wellbeing

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

Person

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.

Publication

Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle

N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764

Publication

Flexible open-source automation for robotic bioengineering

Emma J Chory, Dana W Gretton, Erika A DeBenedictis, Kevin M Esvelt. "Flexible open-source automation for robotic bioengineering." bioRxiv 2020.04.14.041368; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.14.041368 [This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review]

Post

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

Planning the future after Covid-19

Saturday April 4, 2020 …

April 6, 2020
Publication

Experiments with a Robotic Computer Body Affect and Cognition Interactions

Cynthia Breazeal, Wang A., Rosalind W. Picard

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at MIT Technology Day 2023

Danielle Wood ’04, SM ’08, PhD ’12 was one of the keynote speakers at MIT's Technology Day 2023, sponsored by MIT Alumni.

Saturday
June 3, 2023
Person

Arnaud Grignard

Former Research Affiliate

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

Video

(Dis)Appearables

(Dis)Appearables is an approach for actuated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to appear and disappear.

Video

Ethics and Governance of AI | Class 6: April 10, 2018

June 20, 2018