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Five Media Lab Students named 2025 MIT Presidential Fellows

Congratulations to the five fellowship recipients!
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AI & Us: A Series from Dell Technologies featuring expert voices from MIT

Dell Technologies and MIT explore AI’s evolving business impact—offering insights and advice from top industry thought leaders.
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Congratulations to Marisol Diaz on being inducted into MIT's Quarter Century Club

Marisol Diaz is a member of the 2025 class of inductees
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Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD

The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
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Presidential Fellowship Moves Innovation and Research Forward

Raechel Walker says the Presidential Fellowship has helped her build on a passion for increasing diversity in computing.
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Cynthia Breazeal named 2024 AAAS Fellow

She is recognized for her distinguished contributions in the field of artificial intelligence education.
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Personal Robots research on front cover of Science Robotics March 2025 issue

The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.
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Jocelyn Shen receives Jane Street Graduate Fellowship honorable mention

This fellowship supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics.
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New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions

Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
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Cynthia Breazeal receives 2024 Robotics Medal

She was recognized for her significant contributions in establishing the field of social robotics and human-robot interaction.
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Call for Study Participants

Are you ready to help shape the future of technology with social robots?
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Raechel Walker receives 2024 ACM FAccT Award

Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.
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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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SXSW 2025 PanelPicker Proposals

Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!
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Five must-read books on teaching, learning, and digital technologies

Explore books on learning and education recommended by Media Lab Professor Cynthia Breazeal and others from MIT Open Learning.
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Six Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
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MIT program fosters early AI education for future workforce

In a special edition of Government Technology magazine focused on AI, executive editor Noelle Knell highlights the work of Cynthia Breazeal.
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“We offer another place for knowledge”

Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.
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Cynthia Breazeal is making AI fun and educational for kids

In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.
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Unveiling the role of older people as co-designers in shaping social robots

On the Aging Equal Podcast, Dr. Anastasia Ostrowski talks about co-designing social robots and her work collaborating with older adults.
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Patrick Chwalek + Jocelyn Shen receive Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund awards

Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.
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Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2023-25

Professor Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, is among the honorees.
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MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI

The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
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Personal Robots researchers win Best Paper at HRI 2024

Their paper won the award in the Theory + Methods category.
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Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
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IAP 2024

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments during 2024.
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Research Group Overview: Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Bringing design justice to the classroom and workplace

Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
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Robots are already with us—how we treat them tells us a lot about ourselves, here's why

For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.
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Build your skills with MIT’s women engineers

Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
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Five Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Five Media Lab students–Ila Kumar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Cecilé Sadler, Aastha Shah, and Raechel Walker–win MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.
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Safinah Ali from Personal Robots was an educator for the Science Research + Mentoring Program at the American Museum of Natural History

Labber Safinah Ali served as an educator & curriculum designer for the SRMP Machine program at the American Museum of Natural History
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Kate Darling, robot expert: "We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine. It’s going to be all of us"

Dr. Kate Darling, a research scientist with the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, talks to El País about human relationships to tech.
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AI literacy, explained

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.
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AVID Open Access: Day of AI, with Randi Williams

On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
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Cynthia Breazeal named to 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, makes the 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list in the Innovation category
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Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants from MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants for projects exploring AI and workplace management.
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Do scientists have superpowers?

Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
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Kate Darling on the In Her Ellement podcast

Kate Darling discusses the work she's done to be seen as an expert within human-robot interaction and how to pass that power onto others.
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Generative AI for makers: AI has truly arrived — and it’s here to help you make and craft

Personal Robots alum Stefania Druga and editor Keith Hammond explore the ways that crafters and makers can use generative AI techniques.
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A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
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Article by Design Justice Project at MIT featured in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

The article is titled: "What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?"
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Recruiting Participants for Study on Social Robots for Social Connection

We are exploring how social robots can be used to improve connection to others and are looking for participants age 18+ located in the US
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Jocelyn Shen named finalist for 2023 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award

Shen has been recognized for this award conferred by the National Center for Women + Information Technology (NCWIT).
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Day of AI 2023: Photo gallery

View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.
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Daniella DiPaola, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Hope Schroeder receive Gary Marsden Travel Awards to attend CHI 2023

Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Hope Schroeder on being 2023 recipients of the Gary Mardsen Travel Awards.
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RAISE AI Playground Projects

Collection of AI projects built with the RAISE AI Playground.
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The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids.

Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
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2023 Data Activism Schedule

Data Activism Schedule: Feb 18th - April 22ndWeek 1Saturday; Feb 18th; 9 AM - 2:00 PM (4 hours); in the Media LabWeek 2Mon-Fri; Feb 20th - …
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How soon will M3gan become reality? Robot ethicists weigh in

Kate Darling talks about the film M3gan and the future of artificial intelligence systems designed to have human relationships.
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Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI

Cynthia Breazeal led an MIT Open Learning pilot program to deliver a customized AI training program for users with varied backgrounds.
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Robot companions are on their way, but don’t worry, they won’t replace humans

Media Lab researcher Kate Darling looks at the current state of household robots and considers how we may interact with them in the future.
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IAP 2023

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments this year.
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Celebrating open data

New prize program recognizes MIT researchers who make data openly accessible and reusable.
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Anastasia Ostrowski named a 2022 Amazon Robotics Fellow

Anastasia Ostrowski, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among five MIT PhD students honored with Amazon fellowships.
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Labbers win MIT Prize for Open Data 2022

The following winners and honorable mentions include members of the Media Lab community, and were selected from more than 70 nominees.
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Personal Robots team wins Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centered Computing (VL/HCC) conference

Congratulations to Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, and Professor Cynthia Breazeal!
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New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past

The Boston Globe takes a tour around the new MIT Museum, highlighting a number of exhibits and events related to the Media Lab.
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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
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Empowering Cambridge youth through data activism

Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.