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MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public at Cambridge Public Library.&nb…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Beyond the Cradle
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Powered ankle prostheses have been proven to improve the walking economy of transtibial amputees although these powered systems are usually…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Hugh Herr pioneers brain-controlled prosthetics, merging tech and biology to restore mobility and enhance human potential beyond limits.
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
The MIT Space Exploration Initiative explores Lunar analog sites on Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote.During a 10-day field program in Feb…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
MIT alum Audrey Chen talks to MIT News about her career, including joining Media Lab spinoff Formlabs as a project manager.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
She was recognized for her significant contributions in establishing the field of social robotics and human-robot interaction.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta talks to Slice of MIT about his kinetic sculpture "Whale," on display at MIT Museum.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
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
Tsung-Han Lin, Connor Henley, Siddharth Somasundaram, Akshat Dave, Moshe Laifenfeld, and Ramesh Raskar. Handheld mapping of specular surfaces using consumer-grade flash lidar. In IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2024.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
The IM-2 Moon Mission will carry three projects from the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative and collaborators.
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
In a special edition of Government Technology magazine focused on AI, executive editor Noelle Knell highlights the work of Cynthia Breazeal.
T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Framework aiming at Future Human Diaspora