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Space Exploration Initiative

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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

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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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Responsive Environments

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

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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

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Creating technology for social change

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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon 2018

A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Alexis Hope · Catherine D'Ignazio
#human-computer interaction #hacking #health +5 more
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Hacking Reality

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.

March 25, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#virtual reality #augmented reality #hacking
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Personal Food Computer

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

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
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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 believ…

April 4, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #data #environment +4 more
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The hackable bike and the future of the MamaChari

Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.

May 29, 2018
in City Science
#hacking #transportation #urban planning
Project Research

Hackable Bike

To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potentia…

in City Science
Yasushi Sakai
#hacking #transportation #urban planning
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Addressing bias, inequality, and accessibility in breastfeeding

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering

via MIT News · May 4, 2018
in Civic Media
#hacking #health #public health

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