A glimpse into experiments still unfolding. These are early explorations — unfinished, evolving, and sometimes weird — in all the best ways

This collaboration highlights Castrol’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation and pushing the boundaries of space exploration.

Learn more about all of the research groups, centers, and initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.

We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.

MLVoices is an ongoing occasional series featuring community members talking about their ideas, their work, their passions, and their lives.

Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.

To fully explore and understand the ocean, we need "all hands on deck."

LabCAST was the Media Lab's original video feature series. It ran from 2007–2016, highlighting dozens of research projects and initiatives.

The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, whic…

About This HackathonAI & Robotics Hackathon 2026Co-Hosted by Bangkok Bank and the MIT Media Lab | Bangkok, ThailandBuilding Better Futu…

Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…

The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …

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Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…

Media Lab MOSAIC (MAS Outreach for Students Advancing Inclusion & Community)Date: Tuesday, November 10Time: 4:30 - 6:30 PMLocation: MIT…

The next City Science Network meeting took place on September 22 and featured a presentation by the City Science Lab @ Guadalajara team. Du…

Luis Alonso joined the Hello Tomorrow Türkiye Summit 2026 in Istanbul on 16 October, where he spoke about how data, AI, and simulation can …

On October 7, 2026,  Kent Larson took part in the afternoon session "Car-Free Cities: A Desirable Future or a Mission Impossible?" as …

What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…

Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and CEO of DUST, treats sleep hours as a space to design and influence thought.

By Raymond ZhongFrom the bluffs, you might have mistaken the little brown heads poking out of the ocean this month for seals, hundreds of t…

MIT Media Lab finds ChatGPT use weakens brain connectivity - raising questions about long-term cognitive costs

Brown was in town Tuesday for the fifth year of his Bridge Boston program at the MIT Media Lab.

In a 2025 MIT Media Lab study titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT," researchers wired 54 people with EEG sensors and asked them to write essays.

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Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…

OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…

By John WernerSome of the biggest advances today in large language models (LLMs) are driven by challenges, such as those related to privacy…

The first open benchmark measuring AI's impact on human well-being across physical, psychological, and societal dimensions.Measuring AI's i…

ImpactBench measures AI's impact on human health and wellbeing. MIT Media Lab's framework evaluates 807 metrics across 26 benchmarks.

Researchers at (MIT) have developed a point-of-care ultrasound system that generates high-resolution 3D images of breast tissue.

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education 

Joanna Buchthal, Ph.D., an MIT Media Lab postdoctoral associate who directs research for Mice Against Ticks.

The performances at MIT's Thomas Tull Concert Hall will include a world premiere with the MIT Chamber Chorus.

The book centres on Material Ecology, the design approach Oxman developed through her work at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter Group.

Inside MIT’s Media Lab on Amherst Street, there’s a team learning more and more about the power of AI.

Pernigo is a research affiliate in the Multisensory Intelligence group at the MIT Media Lab

Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab's affective computing founder, established the field with her 1995 paper and her 1997 book of the same name.

Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek is developing microscopic chips that could be injected into the bloodstream before making their own way to the brain

By Haas NewsA team of researchers led by the MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) program, in collaboration with UC Berkeley Haas…

The project, called ImpactBench, is an open benchmark that measures AI’s impact on human well-being.

Poet Will Dowd used the MIT Media Lab's Dormio project to seed his dreams with recorded poetry from Harvard University’s audio archive.

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During a live segment of CNN News Central on October 8, 2026, host Brianna Keilar sat down with MIT Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn.

By Hollie SilvermanRussian authorities told the World Health Organization (WHO) that "no case of plague has been recorded in Irkutsk," the …

“People tend to categorize whether this is the right use or wrong use, but I don’t think that is a clear boundary,” Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn.