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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

This is a private event. Please contact your company liaison to receive a password.Below is a version with voice-over in Japanese.Disclaime…

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
Event

Nakagaki 062520 JME05

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 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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Monday
May 11, 2020
Event

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

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

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Ishaq Khan

Senior Postdoctoral Associate

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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.

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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…

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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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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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Dava Newman named co-chair of WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies 2025-2026

Newman joins Masami Onoda from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency as co-chair of this World Economic Forum Council on Space

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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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Joseph A. Paradiso

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

Event

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
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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

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Silverspot: exploring parameter space with sketches

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…

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Comments on Code

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …

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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

Research Affiliate

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Research Group Overview: Critical Matter

The Critical Matter group envisions a future for design that goes beyond the mere application of technology.

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Research Group Overview: Multisensory Intelligence

The Multisensory Intelligence research group studies the foundations of multisensory artificial intelligence to create human-AI symbiosis.

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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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Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Meet HexSense

Meet HexSense, a sensor node designed to be deployed ballistically—in other words, shot out of a cannon—and automatically right itself.

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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)