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Looking beyond smart cities
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Beyond the Cradle
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
Spinoffs
Open Ocean
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
The Brothers Brick looks back at the history of LEGO Education's collaboration with the Media Lab to launch LEGO Mindstorms in 1998.
This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...
Alum Marina Bers on Seymour Papert, STEM, Kibo, and Scratch Jr.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
[1] Solomon et al., 2007. Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. [2] USEPA. (April 2012). Inventory of U.S Greenhouse gas emissions and sinks: 1990-2016, Figure 3-5.
Labber Hae Won Park talks to NBC News Learn about how social robots can help children develop language skills.
We talk a lot about the appliances that go into the future kitchen—but what about the design of the space itself?
Promoters show off promising applications of the technology, but AI is not changing the world quite yet
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Enhancing human physical capability
Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences.
Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning ou...
C. R. Taylor, H. G. Abramson, and H. M. Herr, “Low-Latency Tracking of Multiple Permanent Magnets,” IEEE Sensors Journal, pp. 1–11, 2019.
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
Kate Darling and other experts consider how our interactions with robots may change the way we engage not only with robots, but also people.
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
CE 2.0
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechani...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Creating technology for social change
S. S. Srinivasan, M. J. Carty, P. W. Calvaresi, T. R. Clites, B. E. Maimon, C. R. Taylor, A. N. Zorzos, H. Herr, On prosthetic control : A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface, 2, eaan2971 (2017).
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Exploring robotic sound generation mixed with human movements on the guitar. Guitar Machine II is a robotic guitar that responds to human...
We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentie...
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...
Core77 reports on the Fluid Interfaces group’s work in cyborg botany.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”
Living Distance is a mission and a fantasy realized, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Carried...
Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard talks to IEEE Computer Society for their series on careers in computing.
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communicati...
On May 2nd, 2019 we launched three TESSERAE v2 hardware tiles into space and back! They rode to just over 100km (past the Karman line) on...
Center for Extreme Bionics
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...