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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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Asia Project 050720 TSTJ4

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Thursday
May 7, 2020
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Asia Project 051420 KRMC

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

Thursday
May 14, 2020
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Nakagaki 062520 JME05

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Thursday
June 25, 2020
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Asia Project 052220JTES

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Friday
May 22, 2020
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Asia Project 051120TYST

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May 11, 2020
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Fall 2020 OOLE INT05

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

Thursday
October 29, 2020
Event

Asia Project 052920FSTT

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Friday
May 29, 2020
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Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

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Ishaq Khan

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

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Dong Young Kim

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

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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.

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MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley

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

July 23, 2013
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2019 MIT Startup Showcase at iPark

Meeting the challenges of our aging society offers numerous opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, including opportunities re…

Thursday
May 23, 2019
9:00am — 5:00pm ET
Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

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

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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

Publication

Neural Interfacing Architecture Enables Enhanced Motor Control and Residual Limb Functionality Post Amputation

Srinivasan SS, Gutierrez-Arango S, Teng AC, Israel E, Song H, Bailey ZK, Carty MJ, Freed LE, Herr HM. Neural interfacing architecture enables enhanced motor control and residual limb functionality postamputation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 2;118(9):e2019555118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019555118

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Arnaud Grignard

Former Research Affiliate

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Success on Your Own Terms with Shellye Archambeau and Ramesh Raskar

Professor Ramesh Raskar talks to Shellye Archambeau.

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Agonist-antagonist myoneural interface amputation preserves proprioceptive sensorimotor neurophysiology in lower limbs

S. S. Srinivasan, G. Tuckute, J. Zou., Guiterrez S., Seong H., Barry R., Herr H. “Agonist Antagonist Myoneural Interface Amputation Preserves Proprioceptive Sensorimotor Neurophysiology in Lower Limbs”, Science Translational Medicine (2020)

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(Dis)Appearables

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

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Celebrating Scratch