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The Interplanetary Cookbook

Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Article Research

What’s it like to design a meal that floats?

Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz

via The Tech · Feb. 25, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Tasting Menu in Zero G

 A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019.  Five specially crafted dishes were consum...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +55 more
Project Research

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 ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#environment #food #health +4 more
Article Research

The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

Signal Kinetics head Fadel Adib and other junior faculty members talk about the ways the J-WAFS’ seed grant program has catalyzed their work

via MIT News · Feb. 18, 2021
in Signal Kinetics
#environment #food #health +4 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +63 more
Accepting Applicants
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Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +60 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...

in City Science
Margaret Church · Gabriela Bila Advincula +6 more
#design #food #music +2 more
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +39 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +33 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT researchers hacked agriculture to create what may be the tastiest basil on earth

Want the best Caprese salad or pesto you ever tasted? MIT researchers say they may be able to help.

via The Boston Globe · April 3, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food #technology
Article Research

The future of agriculture is computerized

Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.

via MIT News · April 3, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Publication Research

Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture

Johnson, Arielle, Caleb B. Harper, et al. “Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture: Optimization of Plant Metabolites in an Open-Source Control Environment through Surrogate Modeling.” PLOS ONE 14, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): e0213918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213918.

Academic Paper, April 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Archived
Project Research

Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Daniel Poitrast +2 more
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #food +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Optimizing plants for flavor, nutrition, and pharmaceutical content

Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Rebekah Carlson
#agriculture #food #biology +1 more
Archived
Gallery Research

With(in)_Port_Harcourt_Eket

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 20, 2020
in City Science
#food #storytelling #marginalized communities
Gallery Research

With(in)_Guadalajara

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 20, 2020
in City Science
#food #storytelling #marginalized communities
Project Research

Interplanetary Gastronomy

Maggie Coblentz leads research and design on interplanetary gastronomy at the Space Exploration Initiative, where she is developing ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #space +3 more
Archived
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Archived
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Archived
Post Research

Space Miso: ISS Mission 2020

New flavors may evolve as earth foods migrate to outer space. A collaboration between Maggie Coblentz at the MIT Media Lab and Joshua Eva...

Feb. 27, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#food #space #zero gravity
Archived
Project Research

Fermentation in Space

Fermentation in Space: From the Microbiome to the Envirome This research highlights the many opportunities to bring our rich culture...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#food #space #zero gravity
Archived
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Article Research

Algae caviar, anyone? What we'll eat on the journey to Mars

Humans are headed for the cosmos, and we’re taking our appetites with us. What will fill the void when we leave Earth behind?

via Wired · Feb. 11, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#food #space #technology
Article Research

This compostable packaging can tell you when your food is going bad

Who needs best-by labels when your package is sensing the food inside it?

via Fast Company · Feb. 7, 2020
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#environment #food #technology +2 more
Project Research

Piccolo Kitchen

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...

in City Science
Sotirios Kotsopoulos · Alejandro Garcia +5 more
#robotics #design #food
Article Research

Suleiman Alhadidi on how to maximize the future kitchen, even in small spaces

We talk a lot about the appliances that go into the future kitchen—but what about the design of the space itself?

via The Spoon · Sept. 18, 2019
in City Science
#robotics #design #food
Article Research

Every city needs healthy honey bees

Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.

via TEDxBoston · June 1, 2012
in Mediated Matter
#ecology #environment #food
Article Research

How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time

Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving?

via TEDxProvincetown · June 1, 2018
in Mediated Matter
#ecology #environment #food
Article Research

Grow Your Own Microgreens: Kibbutz inspired Hamama

Hamama is a Media Lab spinoff company founded by City Science alum Daniel Goodman and Camille Richman.

via Jewish Journal · Aug. 14, 2019
in City Science · Media Lab Spinoffs
#food #technology
Article Research

AI: More than Human exhibition challenges our preconceptions

An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.

via Digital Journal · Aug. 4, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg) · Mediated Matter · Civic Media
#design #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Article Research

J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

Nine MIT principal investigators will receive grants totaling over $1 million for research focused on global food and water challenges.

via MIT News · May 29, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#food #wellbeing
Article Research

RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.

via TechCrunch · Nov. 14, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#food #technology #wellbeing
Article Research

Where does your food really come from?

On the BBC’s Follow the Food, OpenAg head Caleb Harper and other experts discuss how technology is transforming our food systems.

via BBC · May 28, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food #technology
Article Research

Power Shift: MIT scientists use machine learning to boost basil flavour

Caleb Harper discusses how machine learning-enabled "food computers" were used to find the optimal conditions to grow basil.

via BNN Bloomberg · May 21, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food #biology #technology
Article Research

Paranoid about tainted lettuce? There could be an app for that one day

Fadel Adib talks to CBS about a project from the Signal Kinetics group that aims to democratize food quality and safety testing.

via CBS This Morning · Feb. 7, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#food #health #technology
Post Research

RFIQ in the News

News coverage of the RFIQ project

Feb. 7, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#artificial intelligence #food #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Transformative Appetite

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...

Wen Wang · Lining Yao +2 more
#design #food
Project Research

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
Article Research

Fake meat, served six ways

We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.

via Wired · July 2, 2018
in Director's Office
#agriculture #environment #food +3 more
Article Research

MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.

via MOLD · Oct. 24, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology
Article Research

Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.

via MIT News · Nov. 14, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#food #technology #wellbeing
Article Research

Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.

via The Irish Times · Nov. 1, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology +1 more
Post Research

Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...

April 4, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #data #environment +4 more
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Article Research

Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industria...

via Radio Open Source · Nov. 16, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Publication Research

How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play

E Short, K Swift-Spong, J Greczek, A Ramachandran, A Litoiu, E Grigore, D Feil- Seifer, S Shuster, JJ Lee, et al (2014). "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Edinburgh, UK).

Proceedings, Oct. 2014
in Personal Robots
#food #health #human-machine interaction +2 more
Publication Research

Artisanal food microbiology

Johnson, Arielle J. "Artisanal food microbiology." Nature microbiology 1 (2016): 16039.

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Director's Fellows
#food
Post Research

This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk

March 29, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Article Research

These food computers use AI to make “climate recipes” for the best-tasting crops

The tech-filled greenhouses can adjust growing conditions over and over again until they find the combinations

via Fast Company · June 9, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food
Article Research

Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles

Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.

May 25, 2017
in Tangible Media
#food
Article Research

The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.

via The Atlantic · Dec. 12, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #open source

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