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A group at MIT created polymers derived from organic matter, printed by a robot, and shaped by water.
Space Exploration Initiative
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
Living Distance is a mission and a fantasy realized, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Carried...
Paper Dreams explores the various modes of creativity that can be enabled by artificial intelligence.A fair amount of current research ha...
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
Community Biotechnology
Creating technology for social change
Throughout the ages bioluminescence has inspired myths. Long ago, sailors in the Indian Ocean encountered massive bioluminescent blooms a...
Open Ocean
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Kyung Yun Choi, Darle Shinsato, Shane Zhang, Ken Nakagaki, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266109
Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook—reM...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Can a modified snap bracelet be used to land infrastructure on an asteroid? It is notoriously difficult to stick a landing on a low ...
They feed data sets into special algorithms to create canvases; they’re showing at art events around the world.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Bauhaus meets binary: an oral history of the Visible Language Workshop.
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
How the Mediated Matter group’s Aguahoja project transforms some of the most abundant materials on the planet into structural art.
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...
Research projects show creative ways MIT students are connecting computing to other fields.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
Designing for, with, and by nature
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
In a fact-averse culture, this New York and Boston-based artist/designer brings them to the fore with his MIT group Poetic Justice.
MIT affiliates collaborate with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Microsoft to improve the connection between people and art.
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to incr...
Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.
BBC Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate ...
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing Wellbeing
CE 2.0
Terrestrial Sensing
Emerging Worlds
Karole Armitage, the distinguished choreographer, is directing the world premiere of 'Schoenberg in Hollywood,' composed by Tod Machover.
Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projectio...
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
Interaction Design category
Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
In “Gradient Descent,” now on view at Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi, artists become one with machines—and the results are stunning.
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
The flag is a fixed object of the past which needs to become more fluid and in conversation with our present.