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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
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BuzzCam

Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
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New imaging technique reconstructs the shapes of hidden objects

By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
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Reconstructing Hidden Objects with Wireless Signals

What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
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WHx

WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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Receptive Skins: Towards a Somatosensitive Architecture

Kapelonis, Chrisoula. Receptive skins: towards a somatosensitive architecture. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Living Knitwork Pavilion: Soft Responsive Architectural Space with Functional Textiles and Integrated System

Wicaksono, I., Rubio, A.P, Cichocka, J.M, Advincula, G., Chin, S., Yu, T., Mishra, M., and Paradiso, J., 2024. Living Knitwork Pavilion: Soft Responsive Architectural Space with Functional Textiles and Integrated System. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2024.
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Tangible Media research on front cover of Advanced Science May 2025 issue

E-LIG, laser-enabled method for flexible printed electronics, is on the May 2025 Advanced Science cover
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E - LIG

​We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
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Wearable device tracks individual cells in the bloodstream in real time

The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.
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To the Moon to Stay: MIT Lunar Mission Launch 2025

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Long Range Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
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AttentivU

​There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
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MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Indoor Drones that can Fly in the Dark

MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
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Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoors

A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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Creating smart buildings with privacy-first sensors

Butlr, founded by former Media Lab researchers, uses insights from thermal sensors to make buildings safe and efficient.
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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AirSpecs

The quality of the air we inhale affects our physical well-being, our mental performance, and our emotional state. Yet, most of us are unaw…
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CollarID

Global biodiversity faces threats from climate change and human disturbance, which affect many species, especially large predators. These t…
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Developing wearables and environmental sensor systems for studying ecosystems

For ACM Crossroads, Cathy Fang talks to fellow Media Lab student Patrick Chwalek about his work developing sensor systems.
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUSP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
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AstroAnt named 2024 Create the Future Design Contest finalist

AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Fluid Interfaces group research featured as cover story of Computers special issue

The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
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Zero-Power Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
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Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
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“Wearable” devices for cells

These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.