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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Enhancing human physical capability
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Looking beyond smart cities
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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.
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Longpre, S., Mahari, R., Chen, A. et al. A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI. Nat Mach Intell 6, 975–987 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00878-8
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Xander, a Media Lab spinoff company dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing challenges, has successfully complete…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Media Lab alum Ramesh Srinivasan, now a professor at UCLA, talks to the Daily Bruin about his new podcast, Utopias.
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Fellows are selected based on their potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
Explore books on learning and education recommended by Media Lab Professor Cynthia Breazeal and others from MIT Open Learning.
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.
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…
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
The Design
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience