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

The Space Exploration Initiative and Space Enabled research group are participating in this year's Virtual MIT Space Week.

Irmandy Wicaksono, PhD student in the Responsive Environments group, has been chosen as one of six finalists in the 2021 Lexus Design Award.

Hadley’s eyes glazed over as she stared at the text and equations in front of her. She dropped her head into her hands and thought out loud,

The past years of climate crises and health epidemics have led to the proliferation of nomadic communities and a near reliance on e-commerce

Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.

The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

To date, two Media Lab projects have received RAPID grants for work related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A six-week summer course in Shenzhen gave students a unique experience in bringing their research into a manufacturing environment

Each Scholar was chosen based on their innovative research and demonstrated leadership within their respective fields.

When material sciences meet e-textiles and human-computer interaction for artistic installations.

"How can architects/urban developers use technology to foster the human/nature connection and improve our lives?" Glorianna Davenport

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.

Developed by a team of Media Lab researchers, SpaceHuman is a seahorse-inspired additive prosthetic for use in microgravity environments.

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

On an upcoming SpaceX launch (CRS-20), we are launching seven TESSERAE v3 hardware tiles to the International Space Station.

The Hacking Manufacturing program allowed students to gain exposure to the realities of deploying their research outside of academia.

This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside.

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

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

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

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...

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

By Monica Orta

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

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

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

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion

What would daily life be like on the Red Planet?

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

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