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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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.
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...
Space Exploration Initiative
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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
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.
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combina...
Beyond the Cradle
OverviewResearch efforts in social human-robot interactions (HRI) have been mainly targeted at a single-person interacting with a single ...
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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.
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...
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...
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...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.
E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).
Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread ...
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Mergen Nachin, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib. "RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning." ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2021.
RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It c...
Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
Under Dr. Wood's leadership, the program will move forward with the NASA Astrobee robotic system as its new in-space robotic platform.
The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.
It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechani...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
Nerve-Muscle Graft Chamber and micro-channel arrays tor interface to peripheral nerves for prosthesis control. This research effort ...
Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable go...
Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...
Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital
A whole new mode of communication between prosthesis and user.
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the ...
City Science researcher Andres Rico reflects on his time participating in this past year's "How To Grow (Almost) Anything" (HTGAA) class.
A proof of concept demonstration for a voxel-based reconfigurable space structure based on electromagnetically actuated picosatellites. I...
A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.
Anyone who is age 60+, speaks English, lives in the US, and has access to Wi-Fi is eligible.
We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a ...
System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
We plan to use magnetomicrometry to provide natural control over prosthetic limbs