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Gastronomy and Beyond

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
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Human Implementation of Upper-Extremity Amputation Incorporating Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) Construction

Carty, Matthew J.; Fernandez, Michael F.; Sullivan, Corey L.; Chiao, Rachael; Berger, Lori; Sparling, Tawnee L.; Souza, Jason M.; Potter, Benjamin K.; Beltran, Luis; Herr, Hugh M. Human Implementation of Upper-Extremity Amputation Incorporating Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) Construction. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, December 12, 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000012642
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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Media Lab research featured in MIT News 2025 highlights

MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
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Sleep++

Sign up to try our new sleep enhancement app! It will be available later this year.Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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‘AIDS amnesia’ is putting women’s lives at risk

Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
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BBC documentary features Circulatronics: the autonomous and surgery-free BCI

Prof. Sarkar explains Circulatronics in BBC interview with Chris McCausland
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WHx

WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses research breakthrough that could reinvent treatment for brain disease

Deblina Sarkar talks to CNN News18 about her recent research on "circulatronics."
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2025 Technology Leadership Circle

The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
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Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Large Population Models

Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
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Ethics of neurotechnology: UNESCO adopts the first global standard in the cutting-edge technology

UNESCO’s Member States took the final step towards adopting the first global normative framework on the ethics of neurotechnology.
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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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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab alum Ben Fry contributes to $100M MacArthur-winning Sentinel project

Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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A parabolic roller coaster into the future of space and lunar exploration

Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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New therapeutic brain implants defy the need for surgery

MIT researchers developed microscopic wireless devices that travel through the bloodstream to deliver targeted brain stimulation.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General, Susan Blumenthal on Closing the Women’s Health Gap

Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Susan Blumenthal on fixing the women's health gap, maternal care, and innovation in US health policy.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Theme | Health + Wellbeing

We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​Memoro is a wearable memory assistant powered by an always-on AI agent. It continuously listens to users and their surroundings, enabling …
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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Microscopic Tech at Forefront of Treating Women's Health Issues

MIT Media Lab's Deblina Sarkar develops nano implants to treat brain diseases, advancing women's health through the WHx program.
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Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations

Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.
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Co-designing Generative AI for Healthy Aging

The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
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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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AI, Wearable Tech Helping Treat Women's Health Issues

Canan Dagdeviren on how WHx, AI, and wearable tech are advancing early, personalized care and closing gaps in women’s health.
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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Alum Irmandy Wicaksono selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Materials science" for 2025

Professor Wicaksono's work focuses on smart textiles.
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The Sierra Leone Orthotics & Prosthetics Program

We've designed a health system strengthening model  to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
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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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Hugh Herr and Nidhi Seethapathi Receive MIT HEALS Innovator Grant

Hugh Herr and Nidhi Seethapathi awarded MIT HEALS Innovator Grant for research on the Cutaneous Mechaneuronal Interface.
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New England Journal of Medicine Series: Wearable Digital Health Technologies

Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Limb & Life: A research collective to support rehabilitation services in Gaza, Palestine

Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
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Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
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SpaceShoe

With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
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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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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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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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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

Research from Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley finds that generative AI models have largely stopped providing disclaimers about medical advice
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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
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Neurotechnology and children

Project investigating the implications of neurotechnology for children's rights today and beyond.
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases

Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
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Conformable Phased Array Ultrasound Patch For Bladder Volume Monitoring (CUSB-Patch)

Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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An implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) for deep brain activation

Precise neurostimulation can revolutionize therapies for neurological disorders. Electrode-based stimulation devices face challenges in ach…
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Technology for Women’s Health

Technology for Women’s Health
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What will athletes be like 60 years from now? Technology will make training easier and reduce injuries

In many disciplines, innovation has reshaped the sports landscape.
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection

Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.