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Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Open Ocean
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Enhancing human physical capability
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Designing for, with, and by nature
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors, ceilings, tables, chairs, and workstations....
A. Dementyev, J. Hernandez, S. Follmer, I. Choi, and J. Paradiso. "SkinBot: A Wearable Skin Climbing Robot." ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, October 2017.
“I’m not worried so much about robots developing their own agenda and taking over the world."
Center for Extreme Bionics
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
Ritual I: The Thing Itself consists of a choreographed robotic body that is in constant flux. It performs a dance of repetitive patt...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ognjen Rudovic, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, “RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction” eTELEMED 2018.
Matt Carney is a PhD student in the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab.
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Networks of robots and blockchains: here's how they will transform our lives
Nikhita Singh, Jin Joo Lee, Ishaan Grover, and Cynthia Breazeal (2018). P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children Storytelling and Listening in Peer-to-Peer Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Eduardo Castello Ferrer, “The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems,” arXiv Prepr. arXiv1608.00695, 2016.
Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo. 2018. Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...
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Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-dem...
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
MF Jung, JJ Lee, N DePalma, S Adalgeirsson, et al (2013). "Engaging Robots: Easing Complex Human-Robot Teamwork using Backchanneling." In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social (San Antonio, Texas).
This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The i...
Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ...
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specif...
Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually
If we want socially assistive robots instead of robot overlords, well, that’s on us.
The most urgent question for people is not whether machines will take their jobs but how machines will change the way they behave in society
Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Jake Rye, Gordon Brander, Tim Savas, Douglas Chambers, Hildreth England, Caleb Harper, “Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture” arXiv Prepr. arXiv1706.05104, 2017.
Anki collaborates with the MIT Scratch Team to bring robotics programming to kids.
3D-print a building on demand: IEEE Spectrum on the Mediated Matter group's Digital Construction Platform.
When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientatio...
Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots...
Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children fr...
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...
Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and c...