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Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
We propose sanitizer, a framework for secure and task-agnostic data release. While releasing datasets continues to make a big impact in var…
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within natu…
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Liquid handling robots are key components of modern biotechnology labs, but they largely function to spare humans from laborious or re…
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…
A Framework For Designing Augmented Human-Flora Interaction.
Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
We tackle the question of how to benchmark reconstruction of inputs from deep neural networks representations. This inverse problem is of g…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that play duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mor…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
Community-scale profiling sensor node for ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities.
A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…
Yourfeed is a modular tool for ecologically valid social media research. Designed to mirror the design of a social media newsfeed, Yourfeed…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
This work is recently submitted as a Full Paper to ACM CHI 2023.Corsetto, is a full stack system design and platform for upper-body haptic…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
Imagine a personal AI agent that you can converse with naturally about your friends and family, helping you remember previous topics you’ve…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
How are our phones and email devices altering our ability to engage deeply in our daily tasks? How important is it to spend time deep…
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
We present a novel video compression pipeline, called Txt2Vid, which dramatically reduces data transmission rates by compressing webcam vid…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
The "dream" has historically been conceived in the West as internal, entirely private, impossibly personal. This is at odds with much of th…
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
This extended abstract was presented at the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2022.In the past few years, th…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
Point clouds are an increasingly ubiquitous input modality and the raw signal can be efficiently processed with recent progress in deep lea…
Image-based virtual try-on involves synthesizing perceptually convincing images of a model wearing a particular garment and has garnered si…
By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract. W…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
Energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are projected to grow at an alarming rate over the next two decades. A recent st…
The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenarios …
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
Smart watches contain a wealth of sensors with the potential to transform health research and intervention, but few teams have the the tech…
Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
With the expansion of intelligent and ubiquitous computers everywhere, we have in many ways become cognitive cyborgs: most of us are insepa…
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
When people listen to stories, the words are colored with emotions conveyed through prosodic features beyond the text alone. Visual font d…
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
The social robot intelligence benchmark is a large-scale multimodal dataset comprising of many diverse contexts, tasks and environments to …
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
S.P.A.R.K.I. (Students' Personal Assistant for Reinforcing Knowledge and Innovation) is a GPT-powered chatbot that scaffolds children's wo…
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Memory is a fundamental cognitive ability that plays an integral role in a wide array of downstream cognitive functions, including reasonin…
The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects that lie outside the camera’s field of view. We use two-bounce light to pe…
ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain the equilibrium hashrate is a monotone function of the fiat exchange value of the block reward. There is no l…
Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Ut…
The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
We seek to empower everyone to become conscientious consumers, ethical engineers, creative problem solvers, and informed advocates for resp…
How can we make embodied agents have multimodal conversation with individual and group users that is not only natural, but also relational,…
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
We create and employ ethical design frameworks to work towards equitable and inclusive HRI research and technologies.
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
We are building autonomous agents that are socially and emotionally saturated in single-person (child-robot) or multi-party (child-parent-r…
Ddog project features Spot robot from Boston Dynamics and a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system, powered by AttentivU, a pair of wireles…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
A modular, membrane protein design based biomimetic sensing system named RESENSA (Receptor S-layer Electrical Nano Sens…
CircuitScout is a DIY probe system designed to simplify the process of testing PCBs, by automatically probing desired signals. Through an i…
Individual mobility, both within cities and across cities, significantly impacts various societal aspects, such as well-being, the spread o…