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Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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
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…
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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 …
They were honored in the Small and Mighty: Fewer Than 100 Employees category.
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Wicaksono, I., Blanchard, L., Chin, S., Colon, C., and Paradiso, J., 2024. KnitworkVR: Dual-reality Experience through Distributed Sensor-Actuator Networks in the Living Knitwork Pavilion. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
Director Dava Newman talks with ILP as part of their Faculty Feature, discussing her work at the MIT Media Lab.
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.