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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
Enhancing human physical capability
Looking beyond smart cities
Nicita, S., Weaver, J.C., Ishii, H. et al. A framework for handweaving robotic textiles with liquid crystal elastomer fibers. Sci Rep 15, 16883 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97835-1
Liquid crystal elastomer fibers incorporated into different weave designs create programmable and reversible structures.
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
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
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Laura Dodds and Fangzheng Liu were recognized among the finalists at the MIT–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Day, earning first and thi
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Christopher Shallal has been selected as one of the inaugural Graduate Fellows in the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative.
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
Professor Hugh Herr is among the top Forbes 100 innovators advancing accessibility.
IM-2’s sideways lunar landing didn’t stop Media Lab researchers and collaborators from gaining insights from their onboard experiments.
At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
There are currently UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
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…
The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
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…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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