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Beyond the Cradle
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
Looking beyond smart cities
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with …
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
Media Lab alum Steve Mann, known as “the father of wearable computing,” talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his approach to new tech.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created plate lattices that are lighter than cork and highly customizable.
Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms are using techniques from kirigami to create strong, lightweight metal structures.
Using kirigami techniques, researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created complex metal structures that are lighter than cork.
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
In a recent profile, Ganit Goldstein talks about her work at the intersection of fashion, engineering, and tech, and her experience at MIT.
Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…
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…
Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have pr…
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
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…
Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air? Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…
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…
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.
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Jorg Scholvin talks to MIT News about his range of experiences at MIT, including current work as an assistant director at MIT.nano.
Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.
Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
MLK Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
Health 0.0
We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porphyr…
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for early …
A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apnea …
Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based immun…
We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a f…
Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automated…
Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Academi…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
Open Ocean
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies