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Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, Madhav Lavakare, Kimaya Lecamwasam, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Physical Manifestation of Generative AI Music Systems for Live Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers (SA Art Papers '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 28, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757369.3767613
Perry Naseck, Brian D. Mayton, Lancelot Blanchard, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Generic Pan Tilt: Open Source Motion Control Platform for Entertainment and Research. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 37, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758998
The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire, engage, and connect people
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Looking beyond smart cities
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, and …
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Prototyping a better future for communication through human-led, AI-assisted systems for collective listening, understanding, and action
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
Wai Lok Wan, Ayah Mahmoud, Sergio Mutis, Avantika Velho, Annie Xing, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Electrospun Fields: 3D Nano-Fiber Material Computation as Design Method. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 9, 3, Article 43 (August 2026), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3816080
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
Designing for, with, and by nature
"Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia" by Gabriela Bilá is a finalist for Best in Environmental Impact at the 2026 Games for Change Awards.
We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Cartesian, an MIT Media Lab startup, uses RFID to track retail inventory in real-time, now deployed in 700+ stores across 55 countries.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
LiDAR sensors are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in consumer technology, appearing in devices such as the Apple iPhone Pro, Apple Vision Pro, …
MIT Media Lab Brings Around-the-Corner Imaging to Smartphone-Grade LiDAR—for Under $100
Coretti Sanchez, N., 2025. Shared Autonomous Micro-Mobility: Evaluating Fleet Performance, Operational Strategies, and Sustainability. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
Today’s indoor sensing systems face a fundamental tradeoff: cameras provide rich visual detail but raise privacy concerns, while tradition…
With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.
MIT researchers develop electrically driven artificial muscle fiber for soft robotics and prosthetics: compact, powerful, efficient systems
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
O. K. Afsar et al., "Electrofluidic fiber muscles." Sci. Robot. 11, eady6438 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
MIT Media Lab alumnus Alexander Reben launches Phyzify, an AI company turning imagination into physical products.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
The project is no longer active, and has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 5-7 and 8-10.This Primary…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
J. Gentinetta, M. F. Fernandez, J. Qiao, M. R. Gonzalez and H. M. Herr, "Biophysical Models With Adaptive Online Learning for Direct Neural Control of Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, pp. 3201-3211, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3599114.
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Enhancing human physical capability
Nicita, S., Weaver, J.C., Ishii, H. et al. A framework for handweaving robotic textiles with liquid crystal elastomer fibers. Sci Rep 15, 16883 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97835-1