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Building adventure

At East Campus, ambitious construction projects draw first-year students to the dorm each fall.
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Visions of A.I. Art From OpenAI’s First Artist in Residence

While many artists view A.I. as a threat to their livelihoods, Media Lab alum Alexander Reben embraces it as a collaborator.
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A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

A new design tool uses UV and RGB lights to change the color and textures of everyday objects.
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Video Friday: Robots Solving Table Tennis

For Video Friday, IEEE Spectrum highlights the Media Lab’s AstroAnt project.
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Meet the 2025 LEGO Papert Fellows

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's fellowship!
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To the Moon to Stay: MIT Lunar Mission Launch 2025

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
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Media Lab Immersion Session + MuRata Facility Visit

A group of Media Lab community members traveled to Japan in late January 2025 to host a series of presentations for current and prospective…
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Developing wearables and environmental sensor systems for studying ecosystems

For ACM Crossroads, Cathy Fang talks to fellow Media Lab student Patrick Chwalek about his work developing sensor systems.
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Living Knitwork Pavilion honored in The Architect's Newspaper 2024 Best of Design Awards

The Living Knitwork Pavilion project has been selected by The Architect's Newspaper in their 2024 Best of Design Awards, in …
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AstroAnt named 2024 Create the Future Design Contest finalist

AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
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A model of virtuosity

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.
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Weaving a web of textile research

Meet Irmandy Wicaksono and other MIT researchers whose work with textiles weaves handcrafts with new materials and digital technologies.
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Smart textiles with Irmandy Wicaksono

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Infra Magazine about his work, which blends electronics and textiles.
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Castrol collaboration supports research on Lunar Landings

Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
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Six Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
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A parabolic roller coaster into the future of space and lunar exploration

Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
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AI and Textiles: It’s already here

In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.
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Living Knitwork Pavilion receives special mention at Architizer A+ Awards

It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category
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An artist in residence on AI's territory

Media Lab alum Alexander Reben has been named as OpenAI’s first artist in residence.
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Convergence: Artistic Explorations from Nature to Society Exhibition at NARLabs

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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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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Research at Scale 2024

A one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes
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The creative future of generative AI

Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
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Bumblebee Data Collection in Puerto Blest, Argentina

In March 2024, we deployed this system alongside National Geographic Explorers and professors Marina Arbetman and Cristian A. Villagra Gil …
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Building a textile sanctuary for an ephemeral metropolis

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
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Day 5 - Vines in Volcanos

Our fifth day in Lanzarote was our biggest data collection day.
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Day 3 - First Lava Tube: Cueva de la Paloma

This morning we entered and explored our first lava tube at Cueva de la Paloma.
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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
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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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Tapis Magique with Pichet Klunchun Dance Company
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Research Group Overview: Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Living Knitwork Pavilion at Burning Man

Living Knitwork Pavilion building and installation during 2023 Burning Man: ANIMALIA, Black Rock City, Nevada.
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From MIT to Burning Man: The Living Knitwork Pavilion

Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
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Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize 2023: Media Lab honorable mentions

Media Labbers, Cassandra Lee and David Ramsay, received honorable mentions for the 2023 Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize.
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Alumni Xin Liu and Nan Zhao collaborate on "Lycorises"

The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
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Seamlessly weaving textile art, culture, and technology in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
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Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!
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A deep dive into deepfakes

On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
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Castrol joins the Media Lab to support research on lunar landings

Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
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Crafting the technology of the future: Irmandy Wicaksono

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Society of Craft about his work, which blends engineering with fabric arts.
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Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
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Irmandy Wicaksono on the Create The Future podcast

Irmandy Wicaksono from the Media Lab's Response Environments group discusses innovations and ancient wisdoms to be found in arts & crafts.
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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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Living Knitwork Pavilion at the MIT Saxon Lawn

Images from the Living Knitwork Pavilion unveiling event on Wednesday, August 2 from 7-9pm at the MIT Saxon Lawn.
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MIT SEI Svalbard Expedition 2023

Researchers from the Media Lab and collaborators begin their second trip to Svalbard, a remote land of wind, ice, and beauty.
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Responsive Environments team and collaborators receive 2023 MIT Portugal seed grant

The research team was awarded for their proposal titled: "Modernizing photovoltaic textiles for scalability and wearable applications.”
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2023!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
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Podcast: Tales from the metaverse, high energy physics and deep electronics

Joe Paradiso talks to host Susan Kish about high-energy physics, wearables, electronic music, science fiction, and the metaverse.
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How’s Your City Doing? Ask the Honeybees.

Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
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Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, and Hiroshi Ishii at launch of Institute for Future Technologies in Paris

The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
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Irmandy Wicaksono + Matt Groh 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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Labbers Shriya Srinivasan and Irmandy Wicaksono featured in docuseries The Road to 2050

The Road to 2050, a six-part docuseries from The Franklin Institute, examines the ways that today's technology will shape the future.
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring
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The weird and wonderful art created when AI and humans unite

Alum Alexander Reben describes his experience making art with algorithms and considers what the future of the field may bring.
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MIT Media Lab graduates share their entrepreneurial journey during 2022 Newhall Lecture

Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
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What in the World is the Metaverse?

Joe Paradiso talks to Data Nation podcast hosts Liberty Vittert and Scott Tranter about the metaverse - what it is and what it isn't.
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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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Ali Shtarbanov and Juliana Cherston take top awards at Tech Briefs Design Contest

Ali Shtarbanov + Juliana Cherston of the Lab's Responsive Environments group each won top prizes in the Create the Future Design Contest.
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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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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
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Mihir Sarkar: 10 Years

Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.