Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…

Simulating how a city or country responds to a policy takes people, not just indicators: residents who share homes and budgets, belong to s…

The Andorra Scenario and Policy Engine is a national-scale model for comparing possible futures, developed by the MIT Media Lab’s City Scie…

We build physical models of cities and countries and project our simulations onto them. Custom control panels let people change a scenario …

Social Simulation vs. The Real Future.Social simulation is now a product. Evaluation still has no common standard.Persona-prompted populati…

The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …

WebAgentica proposes an open architecture for an agent-native web where AI agents can be independently created, published, discovered, and …

Gridnberg is a topography-aware pedestrian routing dataset and application for New York City. It adds elevation to the NYCWalks network and…

Spatial Data, Community Engagement and Sentiment Analysis platform for Dominga Mine sites in Chile

Children used to wander. In 1971, most seven-year-olds in England walked to school on their own. By 1990, fewer than one in ten did. Cities…

CityScope AR brings a new perspective to the physical CityScope Volpe table. Through a phone or tablet, people can explore a simulated day …

Beyond the Rulebook explores how decision models interpret uncertainty in spatial simulations. Two GAMA studies examine passenger guidance …

Imagine a sweater that communicates through gentle squeezes, a scarf that reveals hidden messages, or a knitted flower that slowly blooms t…

Robots are beginning to appear in public spaces and shaping our cities, from delivery systems on sidewalks to machines that inspect infrast…

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…

​Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…

CoCo is a real-time co-creative platform designed to empower young people in both physical and remote settings in Being…

On the evening of Friday, October 24, 2025, a generative portal opened at the MIT Chapel. What you see inside will depend on you—and the ot…

We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music.  This research teaches us how to design mo…

Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…

Algorithmic Mirror uses the engine of Latent Lab to reveal the hidden profiling practices of social media platforms. Developed in collabora…

Ohara is an editorial intelligence layer for the social-media feed you already follow.  It collects your diverse social media feeds ,&…

MyFeed is a local-first capture-and-curation layer for the social-media feed you already follow. Installed as a browser extension, it quiet…

Do AI agents demonstrate robust moral preferences in their decisionmaking? How aligned, or misaligned, are these preferences to human value…

Large language models are general-purpose machines programmed in plain language, yet a single model now answers to households, classrooms, …

FeedScapeFeedScape is an interactive visualization tool that maps the information landscape a person inhabits online. By turning the invisi…

Glyph is a wallet for credit cards with an e-ink display and two buttons. It connects to XR glasses and renders content pushed from them. T…

The data we collect about the physical world keeps growing. Generative models, cheaper compute, and better sensing are pushing dataset size…

This project shows an example of how engineers, mission planners and interested hobbyists can talk to 4 decades of publicly available lunar…

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…

Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…

Clocky, quite simply, is an alarm clock for people who have trouble waking up. When the the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off …

Neurological conditions like stroke and spinal cord injury can cause devastating effects to the life of the individuals and their loved one…

Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…

What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…

Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…

OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…

The first open benchmark measuring AI's impact on human well-being across physical, psychological, and societal dimensions.Measuring AI's i…

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education 

New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…

Form Forge is a creative system for exploring the latent space of architectural sketches by François Blanciak's in his book SITELESS: 1001 …

 News reporting today suffers from sensationalism. News agencies are constantly fighting for attention and clicks, leading to headline…

Wall of Now is a multi-dimensional media browser of recent news items. It attempts to address our need to know everything by presenting a d…

Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.

SuperGlue is a core news research initiative that is a "digestion system" and metadata generator for mass media. An evolving set of analysi…

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…

Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. Ho…

VR Codes are dynamic data invisibly hidden in television and graphic displays. They allow the display to present simultaneously visual inf…

With Vote Purple '20, we are continuing our work of presenting a cognitive middle ground in media consumption - with a targeted focus on th…

The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …

Dealing with rapidly spreading wildfires is a complex task that involves the coordination of multiple government agencies and on-site crews…

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …

How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of v…

Unspectacular Feed is a platform level chrome extension for the automatic detection and disclosure of AI generated content on social media.…