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Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
In October, MIT hosted the kickoff for Massachusetts STEM Week, which included a keynote by Cynthia Breazeal.
Enhancing human physical capability
Space Exploration Initiative
EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and ...
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to ba...
New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Open Drawing Machine is a low-cost open source drawing machine for controlling drawing instruments with motors and code, and it is orient...
T.-H. Hsieh, “Design and Control of a Two-degree-of-freedom Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis”, Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.
How to attain Tangible Telepresence—taking more aspects into consideration.T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Frame...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
C. R. Taylor, H. G. Abramson, and H. M. Herr, “Low-Latency Tracking of Multiple Permanent Magnets,” IEEE Sensors Journal, pp. 1–11, 2019.
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Dimensions of human movement that are absent from the eye, such as pressures, muscular tensions, and external features, are represe...
A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occu...
We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing for, with, and by nature
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Proj...
Creating technology for social change
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...
Tejwani, Ravi. Migratable AI. MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
For the robotics category of the innovation series, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed by Media Lab PhD graduate Matt Carney
The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an experimental enabling technology for large-scale digital manufacturing. In contrast to the ...
The stamp is part of a new USPS series on innovation, representing computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics, and solar technology
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Open Ocean
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning ou...
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
The PCB debugging could be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic and switch to PCB ...
Center for Extreme Bionics
Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-dem...
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specif...
Carney, Matthew E. “Design and Evaluation of a Reaction-Force Series Elastic Actuator Configurable as Biomimetic Powered Ankle and Knee Prostheses By.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
Sumini, V., Muccillo, M., Milliken, J., Ekblaw, A. and Paradiso, J., 2020. SpaceHuman: A Soft Robotic Prosthetic For Space Exploration. [online] Dl.acm.org. Available at: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3334480.3383087> [Accessed: 11 May 2020]
Matt Carney discusses his interest in humanoid robots and the importance of design aesthetics and user experience in developing prostheses.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...