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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +52 more
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Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
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Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +68 more
Article Research

Palm oil is in almost everything, and it’s devastating rainforests. This Bill Gates-backed company used microbes to create an alternative

C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, is producing a substitute for palm oil.

via CNBC · Nov. 23, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#agriculture #environment #food +1 more
Research
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Accepting Applicants
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Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
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Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.

Jan. 16, 2019
in Space Enabled
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #ecology +6 more
Article Research

Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.

via MIT News · June 3, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#agriculture #food #health +3 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Archived
Project Research

A Co-Design Experience: Technologies for Rural Sustainability in Colombia | 2022 Edition

​🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is a…

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
#design #agriculture #civic technology
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Optimizing plants for flavor, nutrition, and pharmaceutical content

Note: On Oct. 25, 2021, the PLOS journal reporting the research associated with this project retracted the publication.Flavor, in addi…

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Rebekah Carlson
#agriculture #food #biology +1 more
Archived
Publication Research

Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture

Johnson, Arielle, Caleb B. Harper, et al. “Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture: Optimization of Plant Metabolites in an Open-Source Control Environment through Surrogate Modeling.” PLOS ONE 14, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): e0213918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213918.

Academic Paper, April 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Article Research

The future of agriculture is computerized

Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.

via MIT News · April 3, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Archived
Project Research

Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductive …

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Felix Kraemer · Ri Ren +2 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +9 more
Archived
Post Research

Sojourner 2020 | An international art payload to ISS

Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.

March 3, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #agriculture #art +1 more
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Project Research

Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydroponi…

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Daniel Poitrast +2 more
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #food +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Tree Computer

The Tree Computer is a robotic greenhouse built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide range …

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Alexander Auerbach · Daniel Poitrast +5 more
#agriculture
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Archived
Project Research

AR Enhanced Wall Plants: Escape Pod

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 

in City Science
Alex Berke
#agriculture #architecture #augmented reality +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Fukushima 2100

“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in nature…

Wakanene Sebastian Kamau
#design #agriculture #art +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Article Research

AI-powered food computers designing new ways of growing crops

MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.

via FoodTank · July 24, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #machine learning
Article Research

Motion-sensing shrubs and robo-Venus flytraps: Inside the world of Cyborg Botany

“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”

via Digital Trends · May 26, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#robotics #agriculture
Project Research

Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Harpreet Sareen
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that co…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Article Research

Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back

Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes

via MIT News · May 3, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Article Research

Fake meat, served six ways

We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.

via Wired · July 2, 2018
in Director's Office
#agriculture #environment #food +3 more
Article Research

MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.

via MOLD · Oct. 24, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology
Article Research

Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.

via The Irish Times · Nov. 1, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology +1 more
Post Research

Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…

April 4, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #data #environment +4 more
Publication Research

Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture

Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Proceedings, Oct. 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#robotics #agriculture #data +1 more
Article Research

The public doesn’t trust GMOs. Will it trust CRISPR?

There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.

via Vox · Aug. 20, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#agriculture #health #synthetic biology
Article Research

Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …

via Radio Open Source · Nov. 16, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Post Research

This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk

March 29, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Article Research

The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.

via The Atlantic · Dec. 12, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #open source

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