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Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Space Exploration Initiative
"Our device-driven research is directly inspired by the diseases of our family members and dear friends...indirectly by humanity at large."
Health 0.0
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...
Beyond the Cradle
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Enhancing human physical capability
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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
Mekatilili is a learning initiative that provides a platform for African youth to enhance technical skills through creative learning...
We are currently developing a new approach in conducting sensory examinations via the Olfactory Response Baseline Identification Test (O....
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Open Ocean
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...
Our published research findings listed below share key examples for reducing dependence on specialized medical devices, biological &...
K. Angelino*, P. Shah*, D. Edlund, M. Mohit, G. Yauney. BMC Oral Health 17.1: 162 (2017). DOI: 10.1186/s12903-017-0472-4. * Equal contribution
E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00745
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2017). DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. 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
Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...
Mediated Matter head Neri Oxman talks to ELLE about her work.
Apps developed by MIT spinout Tulip help manufacturers augment employee production rather than automating it away.
Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...
The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques f...
Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with applications ranging from smart cities, health care, defense, economy, government, educ...
At Otherlab, inventors build cutting-edge tech from exoskeletons and flexible undersea robots to clean energy devices.
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...
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...
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
On Should This Exist?, Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt grapples with the potential benefits and consequences of gene drive.
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
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...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
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...
Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
How the Mediated Matter group’s Aguahoja project transforms some of the most abundant materials on the planet into structural art.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...