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Exploring the future of music through AI, multisensory expression, creativity, and sonic healing.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of person’s cognitive states available in different form-factors: glass…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Prototyping a better future for communication through human-led, AI-assisted systems for collective listening, understanding, and action
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
Media Lab alum Ehsan Hoque is inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows for his work in scalable, ethical AI for health.
The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
A new biohybrid system developed at MIT is the first living implant that uses rewired nerves to revive paralyzed organs.
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
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
Professor Ed Boyden joins Neuroscience and Beyond to discuss optogenetics, expansion microscopy, and consciousness.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Enhancing human physical capability
Focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to yield scientific advances.
Precise neurostimulation can revolutionize therapies for neurological disorders. Electrode-based stimulation devices face challenges in ach…
Since its 2015 debut by an MIT team, expansion microscopy has advanced research on kidneys, seeds, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.
There are currently UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
This research has ImPULS has potential applications for treating conditions from major depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
Director's Circle member, Robert Langer, was awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a caretake…
Researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and other experts discuss the potential of and safeguards needed for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.
News coverage of the neural control prosthetic from Biomechatronics group.
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
The study, co-authored by Ed Boyden, finds stimulating key brain rhythms with light + sound could drive clearance of an Alzheimer’s protein.
A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally
MIT engineers’ implantable ImPULS device could become an alternative to the electrodes now used to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases.
The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Shu, T., Herrera-Arcos, G., Taylor, C.R. et al. Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration. Nat Rev Bioeng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00151-y
L. Chicos, D. Rangaprakash, R. Barry, H. Herr, Resting State Neurophysiology of Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface in Persons with Transtibial Amputation. under review at Nature Communications Medicine. (2023).
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
A new study suggests that experiencing aesthetic chills, or goosebumps, during stimuli like music and films can lead to increased emotions.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
GAMMIFIED was Professor Machover's first attempt to create a musical work based around therapeutic Gamma frequencies.
Researchers from the Fluid Interfaces research group and collaborators are delving into the secrets of aesthetic chills.
Jorg Scholvin talks to MIT News about his range of experiences at MIT, including current work as an assistant director at MIT.nano.
8K Brain Tour is a visualization system for terabyte-scale, three-dimensional (3D) microscopy images of brains. High resolution (8K o…
ML Learning
Open Ocean
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
AttentivU smart glasses designed to help wearers tune into a task and tune out the world.
The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with their …
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable goal…
Lower-extremity amputation surgery has not seen significant change since the Civil War. This research is focused on the development of nove…
Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs.
Author Todd Balf gets a front-row seat as Hugh Herr plots his next big act—a $100 million project to end a slate of disabling conditions