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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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…
Looking beyond smart cities
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
In many disciplines, innovation has reshaped the sports landscape.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.
This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
Since its 2015 debut by an MIT team, expansion microscopy has advanced research on kidneys, seeds, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
New technology for next-generation wireless + batteryless micro-implantsThese wireless batteryless micro-chips can reprogram themselves ins…
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Pandemic Response CoLab will help individuals and groups work together to solve practical problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. By lev…
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
This research has ImPULS has potential applications for treating conditions from major depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
Technology for Women’s Health