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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
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Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Gridlocked: Spaceship Earth

On the Gridlocked Podcast, Media Lab Director Dava Newman and other guests discuss the climate emergency, collaboration, and adaptation.
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Could self-driving bikes change how we use cities?

Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
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Friction on TED Radio Hour

Lab alum David Moinina Sengeh and others speak on TED Radio Hour about friction in its many uses and forms.
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera featured as a research highlight in Nature Electronics

The Signal Kinetics lab's underwater camera project was chosen as a research highlight in the current issue of Nature Electronics
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Center for Civic Media
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Signal Kinetics team wins Explorer Prize in Ocean Observing Prize's DISCOVER Competition

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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Informality Crowdsourced Database

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Digital Life
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New approach to sustainable building takes shape in Boston

A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.
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AR Enhanced Wall Plants: Escape Pod

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 
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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…
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Experiential Lighting: New user interfaces for lighting control

The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered to…
Communications Futures Program
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Andorra | Energy + Environment

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How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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How the body could power pacemakers and other implantable devices

Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.
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School and Energy Awareness, City Science Andorra

SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the e…
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The body electric

What if wearable and implantable devices could harvest energy from the heat, sweat or vibrations of the wearer?
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Future of batteries and future with better batteries

This is the 3rd concept exhibition of imaginarium of technology which explores the future with advancement of batteries and how battery tec…
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How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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Center for Future Banking
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