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Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Color-changing DaVinci guitar launches with E Ink tech from MIT Media Lab, bringing customizable design to live music performance.
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Enhancing human physical capability
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
👉 Read the full paper here (open access). NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-…
Dünya Baradari, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 57, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3719160.3736623
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
The companies were selected in the following categories: Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing + Materials, Agriculture, and Medical Care.
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman, S…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Emerging Worlds
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…
Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific task…