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Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Our mission is to expand horizons, foster creativity, and explore a myriad of concepts. Gastronomy and Beyond is a collaboration betwe…
Ornellas, S. B., Kizilaslan, B., Shah, A., Hou, J. F., Shin, Y., Moyers, A. H., Lozano, C., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities”, Advanced Materials, 0:e20454, 2026. [“Women in Materials Science” Special Issue]
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.
Stress causes a significant reduction in quality of life, with 37% of adults globally reporting substantial daily stress in 2024. Work is a…
Using nearly 250,000 hours of data, NEC and the MIT Media Lab are conducting ongoing research to better understand chronic stress in workin…
What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips inside the brain without the need for any surgery but with a simple injection in the a…
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
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
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…
Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
Prof. Sarkar explains Circulatronics in BBC interview with Chris McCausland
Deblina Sarkar talks to CNN News18 about her recent research on "circulatronics."
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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…
UNESCO’s Member States took the final step towards adopting the first global normative framework on the ethics of neurotechnology.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
MIT researchers developed microscopic wireless devices that travel through the bloodstream to deliver targeted brain stimulation.
Enhancing human physical capability
Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Susan Blumenthal on fixing the women's health gap, maternal care, and innovation in US health policy.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
MIT Media Lab's Deblina Sarkar develops nano implants to treat brain diseases, advancing women's health through the WHx program.
Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Canan Dagdeviren on how WHx, AI, and wearable tech are advancing early, personalized care and closing gaps in women’s health.
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Professor Wicaksono's work focuses on smart textiles.
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Hugh Herr and Nidhi Seethapathi awarded MIT HEALS Innovator Grant for research on the Cutaneous Mechaneuronal Interface.
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Research from Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley finds that generative AI models have largely stopped providing disclaimers about medical advice
This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Project investigating the implications of neurotechnology for children's rights today and beyond.