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Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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. …
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced developmental trauma, or chronic stre…
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
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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…
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 tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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…
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
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
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
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…
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.
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 …