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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions

Guardian Ag’s autonomous crop-spraying drones make farming safer and more efficient, backed by MIT’s E14 Fund and strong grower demand.
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Space Enabled

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

Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
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How IM-2 payload operators made the most of the mission’s landing issues

IM-2’s sideways lunar landing didn’t stop Media Lab researchers and collaborators from gaining insights from their onboard experiments.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Luna: A moon on Earth

MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design + engineering
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Far-UVC for airborne pathogen disinfection

Assessing the safety of Far-UVC – an emerging technology for airborne pathogen control. 
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Assessing the safety of new germicidal far-UVC technologies

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic underscored the crucial importance of enhanced indoor air quality control measures to mitigate the spread of …
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Deploying a practical solution to space debris

Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
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Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
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Design as an Astronaut

A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
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Earth and Planetary Mission Control at Venice Biennale 2025

Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
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Cities That Feel: Modeling Emotional Interactions and Collective Behavior in Cityscapes

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
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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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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
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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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In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
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The World Economic Forum highlights three technologies revealing the impacts of climate change

These interactive, intuitive explorations of complex data can be used to help leaders make climate decisions.
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons

A growing body of academic work has established that prisons expose incarcerated people to a long list of severe environmental hazards.
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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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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AstroAnt Canary Islands Field Expedition

The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
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Capturing the Moon: the search for lava tubes beneath the Lunar surface

Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
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Earth observation technology trends for climate intelligence

As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater.  Earth Observa…
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MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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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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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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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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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
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AirSpecs

The quality of the air we inhale affects our physical well-being, our mental performance, and our emotional state. Yet, most of us are unaw…
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CollarID

Global biodiversity faces threats from climate change and human disturbance, which affect many species, especially large predators. These t…
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Developing wearables and environmental sensor systems for studying ecosystems

For ACM Crossroads, Cathy Fang talks to fellow Media Lab student Patrick Chwalek about his work developing sensor systems.
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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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KnitworkVR

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Fluid Interfaces group research featured as cover story of Computers special issue

The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
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Zero-Power 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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2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence

2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
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Marian Muthui: The unstoppable force assembling Kenya’s first electric buses

Alum Marian Muthui is the New Product Introduction Programme Manager at BasiGo Kenya, where her team assembled Kenya's first electric buses.
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3D printers just got a big, eco-friendly upgrade (in the lab)

Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.
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Study evaluates impacts of summer heat in U.S. prison environments

MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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Satellite Data for Environmental Justice

Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…