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Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced developmental trauma, or chronic stre…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
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
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
Alum Brent Britton, now an intellectual property attorney, talks to Boston University School of Law.
He is among six MIT faculty and instructors who have received this award.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
The MIT senior and undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Gabriela Torres Vives, et al. "Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound." Bank of England and MIT Digital Currency Initiative, December 2024
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
He received the award in Imaging Science.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157499
The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
Media Lab Professor Zach Lieberman talks about his artistic practice, his daily digital sketches, and his approach to new technologies.
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Future You, developed by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
Meet Irmandy Wicaksono and other MIT researchers whose work with textiles weaves handcrafts with new materials and digital technologies.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…