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RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring ...
Going from policy to practice, these are some of the herculean questions that policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling ...
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Context. Fast containment is key to halting an epidemic outbreak. But with the long incubation period of a virus like COVID-19, it ...
This Primary School AI curriculum introduces elementary school children to robotics and artificial intelligence. Throughout the curriculu...
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...
Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware,...
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs. Unsoo Ha, Junshan Leng, Alaa Khaddaj and Fadel Adib. Usenix NSDI 2020
Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Based off of Jaidyn Edward's PopPet, Gizmo is a low-cost, Arduino-based robot used in AI curricula developed by the Personal Robots group.
Esvelt's career has gone from straight science into ethics and safety.
How biologist Kevin Esvelt came to know the planet, in his own words.
Kevin Esvelt has been named as one of the Inverse Future 50, “a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”
The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehens...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative lea...
What anonymized geolocation data can tell us about the effectiveness of social distancingThe World Health Organization has officially dec...
Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma, Ramesh Raskar, Kent Larson, Alex `Sandy' Pentland. (March 31 2020). "Assessing Disease Exposure Risk With Location Histories And Protecting Privacy: A Cryptographic Approach In Response To A Global Pandemic." Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.14412
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Zhang Y, Weninger F, Schuller B, Picard R "Holistic Affect Recognition using PaNDA: Paralinguistic Non-metric Dimensional Analysis." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, December 2019.
A team from MIT has designed disposable face shields that can be mass produced quickly to address hospitals’ needs nationwide.
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
Thom Kubli, in collaboration with the Tangible Media group, on the development of a machine that can 3D print objects light enough to float.
What if we could leverage technology and modern cosmetics for good? To empower people to explore identities? To give anyone, regardless o...
¿Cómo puede la tecnología influir en las celebraciones culturales? // How can technology influence cultural celebrations?Ofrenda Di...
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...
Sensors, especially biosensors, are indispensable for modern society due to their wide applications in public healthcare, national and ho...
For understanding the brain structure, it is necessary to decipher the nanoscale organization of the biomolecular building blocks of the ...
Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical tools for in-vivo interrogation of our biological systems in order to answer fundamen...
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.T...
We are developing nano-devices using meta-materials that can non-invasively and remotely monitor and modulate our bio...
Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with applications ranging from smart cities, health care, defense, economy, government, educ...
What will it cost to reserve the room for an event? What is included in the room reservation rate?
Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...
At midnight, Tuesday, March 17, E14/E15 will be closed to staff, faculty, students, & visitors who don't have special permission to enter.
SpatialSpatial’s AR collaboration platform allows people to instantly teleport anywhere in the world and work together with others as if ...
Looking beyond smart cities
SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measur...
What are the opportunities and challenges in the creation of art for space, and art depicting space and space technologies?
It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as a easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desi...
An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ...
InspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain moments: when a favorite moment of a favorite song comes on, o...
Cedric Honnet, Hannah Perner-wilson, Marc Teyssier, Bruno Fruchard, Juergen Steimle, Ana C Baptista, and Paul Strohmeier. "PolySense: Augmenting Textiles with Electrical Functionality using In-Situ Polymerization". In the Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020).
Paul Strohmeier, Narges Pourjafarian, Marion Koelle, Cedric Honnet, Bruno Fruchard and Jürgen Steimle. "Sketching On-Body Interactions using Piezo-Resistive Kinesiology Tape". In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference. (AHs 2020)
We present a work-in-progress wearable hand sanitizer that automatically dispenses and sprays alcohol to the wearer's hand and objects th...
XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
Job Opportunity! The Open Ocean Initiative is seeking a Marine Robotics Engineer. The engineer will be responsible for developing th...
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study effects of sustained microgravity
Open Ocean
Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality Through A Wearable Device With An Explainable AI AssistantHuman judgments and decis...
Pataranutaporn, Pat, et al. "Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and Advice." ACM CHI 2020.
Danry, Valdemar, et al. "Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality Through A Wearable Device With An Explainable AI Assistant." ACM Augmented Humans 2020.
Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pe...
Kate Darling joins Anthony Daniels, Chuck Nice, and Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk about the rise of robotics and the cultural impact of C-3P0.
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
By Phil TinnTo Dock, or Not to Dock?The last few years saw a rapid adoption of app-based taxis, shared bikes, and increasingly...