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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
There are currently UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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
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
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.
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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…
Powered ankle prostheses have been proven to improve the walking economy of transtibial amputees although these powered systems are usually…
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
Hugh Herr pioneers brain-controlled prosthetics, merging tech and biology to restore mobility and enhance human potential beyond limits.
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
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-…
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.
She was recognized for her significant contributions in establishing the field of social robotics and human-robot interaction.
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