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Enhancing human physical capability
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
Space Exploration Initiative
Looking beyond smart cities
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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.”
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
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...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
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...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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...
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture--the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ens...
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...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable go...
Nerve-Muscle Graft Chamber and micro-channel arrays tor interface to peripheral nerves for prosthesis control. This research effort ...
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic m...
Robots today can be made of various materials; we are no longer limited to heavy metal parts and assemblies. This project explores "...
Castello Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., Pentland, Alex ('Sandy'). (2019, April 22). Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09266
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Open Ocean
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and cap...
This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experi...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without el...
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specif...
Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...
Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Ekblaw, Ariel, and Joseph Paradiso. “ Self-Assembling Space Habitats:TESSERAE Technology and Mission Architecture for Zero-g Construction ” To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference (2019).
Because old-school surgical amputation hasn’t kept up with modern-day medicine.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The i...
System uses RFID tags to home in on targets; could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications.
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...
Designing for, with, and by nature
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floo...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
B. E. Maimon, K. Sparks, S. S. Srinivasan, A. N. Zorzos, H. M. Herr, Spectrally distinct channelrhodopsins for two-colour optogenetic peripheral nerve stimulation. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2, 485–496 (2018).
Sareen is a research affiliate within the Fluid Interfaces group, and worked with lab founder Pattie Maes to develop the project.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better