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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

In 2017, the MIT Media Lab set its sights on space. Just over two years later, the Space Exploration Initiative has grown ...
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Health 0.0
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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Neri Oxman has all the answers

Mediated Matter head Neri Oxman talks to ELLE about her work.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Software to empower workers on the factory floor

Apps developed by MIT spinout Tulip help manufacturers augment employee production rather than automating it away.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
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Integrated Complex Systems Modeling

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques f...
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Ultra-scalable and energy-efficient nanoelectronics

Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with applications ranging from smart cities, health care, defense, economy, government, educ...
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Inside Otherlab's world of flying inventions and elastic machines

At Otherlab, inventors build cutting-edge tech from exoskeletons and flexible undersea robots to clean energy devices.
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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...
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How do materials choices and design decisions affect the regulatory pathway for neuroimplantable devices?

We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...
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Living Distance

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...
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Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
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Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...
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Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
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We can change the DNA of an entire species—in the wild

On Should This Exist?, Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt grapples with the potential benefits and consequences of gene drive.
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back

Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
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TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture--the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ens...
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TESSERAE: Suborbital launch test

On May 2nd, 2019 we launched three TESSERAE v2 hardware tiles into space and back! They rode to just over 100km (past the Karman line) on...
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Mechatronic Systems

Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

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Research Area | Medical Imaging Technologies Using Unorthodox Artificial Intelligence for Early Disease Diagnoses

Our published research findings listed below share key examples for reducing dependence on specialized medical devices, biological &...
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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...
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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
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Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian network approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
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TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Mekatilili Fellowship Program

Mekatilili is a learning initiative that provides a platform for African youth to enhance technical skills through creative learning...
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Aguahoja—Programmable water-based biocomposites for digital design and fabrication

How the Mediated Matter group’s Aguahoja project transforms some of the most abundant materials on the planet into structural art.
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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Alana gift to MIT launches Down syndrome research center, technology program for disabilities

Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
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Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
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This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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‘Uncovering Hidden Pathways’ focuses on future minority youth in STEM

Jaleesa Trapp led a discussion at her alma mater about antiracist approaches to engaging young people from marginalized groups in STEM.
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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kinetiX

kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
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Self-Assembling Space Architecture: tessellated shell structures for space habitats

Ekblaw, A. and Paradiso, J.A., "Self-assembling Space Architecture: tessellated shell structures for space habitats," In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, Smart/Adaptable Deployable Structures (p. 0481).
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
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Detection of biomarkers of periodontal disease in human saliva using stabilized, vertical flow immunoassays

E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. "Detection of biomarkers of periodontal disease in human saliva using stabilized, vertical flow immunoassays." ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00745
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Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...
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Non-Ionizing Imaging for Medical Diagnosis Instead of 2D Radiography and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Dental Caries

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel

D. Sarkar, X. Xie, W. Liu, W. Cao, J. Kang, Y. Gong, S. Kraemer, P. M. Ajayan and K. Banerjee, “A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel,” Nature, Vol. 526, No. 7571, pp. 91, 2015
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Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...
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Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
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Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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At-Home Sleep Apnea Screening

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apne...
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Biomarker Imaging with Mobile Phones

We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porph...
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Detecting Biomarkers with Printable Paper Diagnostics

Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...
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Near-infrared transillumination guides administration of dental 2D radiography and CBCT imaging

K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. "Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and CBCT Imaging." 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
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Design and preliminary evaluation of a wearable device for mass-screening of sleep apnea

R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. "Design and preliminary evaluation of a wearable device for mass-screening of sleep apnea." 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). pp. 1870-1873. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591085