Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music

How a robotic tail could help future space travelers

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are developing technology for a day when amateur astronauts travel into orbit.

Honorable Mention: Moon Village, a vibrant hub in the unknown

Innovation knows no geographic bounds in this collaboration, including research by Labber Valentina Sumini.

Artem Dementyev Dissertation Defense

Artem Dementyev defends his dissertation on June 28, 2019.

TESSERAE: Suborbital launch test

On May 2nd, 2019 we launched three TESSERAE v2 hardware tiles into space and back! They rode to just over 100km (past the Karman line) on...

Space is poised for explosive growth. Let’s get it right.

Before low-earth orbit is clogged with hotels, satellite traffic, and debris, we should plan for the extra-planetary community we want.

Transitions, reflections, and welcome 2019

Instead of doing one "year in review" post, we invited the Lab community to reflect upon 2018 and what's coming up in 2019.

Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.

This robot crawls over your body and scans your skin with a microscope

SkinBot is a palm-sized bipedal robot with suction-cup feet inspired by leeches and the suckers of cephalopods.

MIT's Skinbot is a wearable robot that's designed to scamper all over your body

“The idea is making wearable robots that move around your body, kind of like small robotic companions that help you."

Living the Media Lab experience with the 2018 MSRP interns

By Monica Orta

SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2019

Science Fiction for tomorrow's day to day

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D

Project TESSERAE, a Self-Assembling Space Architecture

The TESSERAE project is a design experiment in imagining how to bring the concept of geodesic domes from Earth into orbit.

Your front row seat to the trade war

This is what a trade war looks like.

Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab

Mediated Atmosphere

Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments

Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion

DermalAbyss wins Scifi No Longer Award at SXSW

The 21st annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards honored DermalAbyss with the Scifi No Longer Award, given to "the coolest sc...

figur8: digitizing 3-D body movements for everyone

Nan-Wei Gong and figur8 are spurring the growth of wearable technology within the sports medicine and digital health sectors.

Gershon Dublon Dissertation Defense

Sensor(y) Landscapes: Technologies for an Extended Perceptual Presence

A guide to daily life on Mars

What would daily life be like on the Red Planet?

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Media Lab @ SXSW 2018

Members of the Media Lab community to speak at SXSW 2018.

Congratulations to the Media Lab's 2017 Innovation by Design Award Honorees

Labbers honored in Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards 2017.

Our extended sensoria

How humans will connect with the Internet of Things

Hacking Manufacturing: research on the factory floor

How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.

CNET en Español: The 20 most influential Latinos in tech, 2017

César Hidalgo, head of the Collective Learning research group, and former Responsive Environments researcher Katia Vega, have been chosen...

The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in t...

The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.

Post Graduate Program

A season of learning at the Lab

The Media Lab's 2017 MSRP interns reflect on their experiences.

Who will build the health-care blockchain?

Decentralized databases promise to revolutionize medical records, but not until the healthcare industry buys into the idea and gets to work.

#57 Boxie

Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people withi...

This Tattoo Ink Can Sense How Healthy You Are

Combining tattoos and biotech to create biosensing ink that could one day give us information about our health via our skin.

Extreme Communications: Session Two: Extreme Expression

FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.

MIT researchers turned a strip of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument

Textile in G Major

Probing into the Skin’s Abyss

Updates on the DermalAbyss project

FabricKeyboard, la tastiera di tessuto del MIT

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.

Nan Zhao Dissertation Defense

This dissertation explores lighting and environment control for future workspaces with advanced sensing and output capabilities.

These tiny, wearable robots can cling to your clothes and drive around your body

They may one day assemble into a screen on your arm.

MIT researchers develop tattoo inks that could act as health trackers

Researchers from MIT's Media Lab have developed a tattoo ink that changes colour according to varying glucose and pH levels inside the body.

Music of the (data) spheres

A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.

These color-changing tattoos monitor your health, no wearable needed

Researchers at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School teamed up to create tattoo ink that reacts to your body’s chemistry.

MIT's Experimental Keyboard Is Unlike Any Instrument You've Seen (Or Heard)

In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.

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Meet the Labbers: Juliana Cherston

"These are really deep philosophical questions that one might pose. We are the ones making the models for science."

#68 Hybrid Basketry

Contemporary 3D printing and traditional craft rarely meet in the same creation. The Hybrid Basketry project merges these two distinct tr...

Jie Qi Dissertation Defense

Alum Uses Puzzles to Connect Digital Worlds

MIT Shows How A Tree Can Be A Documentary

MIT has long been at the forefront of fostering and tracking the creation of new documentary forms.

MIT Creates a Shape-Shifting Hardware System

Hands Full? KickSoul Lets You Kick to Answer Your Phone

Ever tried to answer a smartphone with your hands full? Try your foot instead. KickSoul is an insole that you can slip inside shoes to co...

Final Project Presentations for MAS S62: Health Behavior Change Lab (Part 1)

Course OverviewWe often know what to do to be healthy (don’t smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, get >=7 hours sleep, walk or exercise 30 mins/day, develop healthy relationships, manage stres

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Jie Qi on Edith Ackermann

Edith was a mentor to me, both inside and outside academics, inside and outside the Lab. In our discussions, Edith had a knack for taking...

From cute droids to robots that stab you, it's time to get personal with machines

MIT Media Lab graduate Alexander Reben creates robots designed to spark debate about what our coexistence with AI will look like

Joseph Paradiso: Where Big Data Touches People