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Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies
A keynote by MAS graduate Anna Huang (S.M. '08) anchors an evening of boundary-pushing research from the program's first graduate students.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Looking beyond smart cities
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Pat Pataranutaporn joins MIT SERC symposium panelists to argue AI should be designed differently for education and learning.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
Today’s indoor sensing systems face a fundamental tradeoff: cameras provide rich visual detail but raise privacy concerns, while tradition…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Former Media Lab Professor W. Russell Neuman and other experts talk to CNET about the potential impacts of chatbots based on generative AI.
Media Lab alum Ehsan Hoque is inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows for his work in scalable, ethical AI for health.
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
A collaboration between Responsive Environments and Fluid Interfaces wins the Lasting Impact Award at ACM Augmented Humans 2026.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks (sAIpien)
This project is no longer active, but has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 11 to 18.How to Train Yo…
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…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.
"Key challenges remain in creating integrated systems that offer seamless interaction and rich user experiences."
The broadcast included a discussion of music and AI as well as a live demo of the AI system from Professor Machover’s FLOW Symphony.
Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
Mitch Resnick and other experts talk to senior reporter Holly Baxter about the skills that kids will need as AI reshapes modern society.
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evolv…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
Artists and engineers Karl Sims and Alexander Mordvintsev speak about the potential of artificial life and creativity with Peter Bauman.
Professor Ed Boyden joins Neuroscience and Beyond to discuss optogenetics, expansion microscopy, and consciousness.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
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
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Danielle Wood and Pat Pataranutaporn in Thailand at KBTG Techtopia: At World's Beginning.
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts