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Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Space Exploration Initiative
By Rachel Bellisle
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
The TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes to the International Space Station.
by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Uni...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Beyond the Cradle
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...
He was recognized for his innovative contributions to wireless sensing and for networking advances in challenging environments.
Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrate...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract....
Looking beyond smart cities
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What typ...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all
In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers...
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever bef...
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object d...
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces ...
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&...
Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...
Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspac...
It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...
The SLAS Innovation Award is a $10,000 cash prize recognizing the work behind one exceptional podium presentation.
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combina...
RAISE
Check out this list of cyberart projects compiled by The Boston Globe, which includes work by alum Alexander Reben and Prof. Ekene Ijeoma.
A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Enhancing human physical capability
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins.
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656
AZoM talks to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, a visiting doctoral student in the Tangible Media group, about her work on the OmniFiber project.
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop str...
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...
Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes
Open Ocean
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizen...