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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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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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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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Brain-reading devices raise ethical dilemmas — researchers propose protections

Media Lab’s Nataliya Kosmyna comments in Nature on new global ethical guidelines for neurotechnologies drafted by UNESCO.
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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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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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Weaving memory into textiles

For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
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What will athletes be like 60 years from now? Technology will make training easier and reduce injuries

In many disciplines, innovation has reshaped the sports landscape.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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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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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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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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Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
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MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device in…
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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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BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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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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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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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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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
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FerroZuit

A FerroMagnetic Suit For Zero Gravity // Grounding Humans without Gravity
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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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Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response a…
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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MeMic only has ears for you

MeMic is a wearable recording device developed in the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group.
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MeMic: Socially Acceptable Audio Recording Wearable

MeMicWearables that record audio all the time pose privacy concerns. We want to allow the myriad use cases these wearables allow without th…
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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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Decoding tissue biomechanics using conformable electronic devices

Yoon, H., Kim, J., Sadat, D., Barrett, A., Ko, S. H., Dagdeviren, C.†, "Decoding Tissue Biomechanics via Conformable Electronic Devices", Nature Reviews Materials, doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00729-3, 2024. [Cover Image]
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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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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
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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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Rosalind Picard on the ACM ByteCast

On the ACM ByteCast, Professor Rosalind Picard and host Scott Hanselman talk about her work in the Media Lab's Affective Computing group.
How software can act as an assistant rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user's needs
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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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Sleep and Wellbeing

By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
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Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform

Johnson, K.T., Ferguson, C.S., Picard, R.W., "Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2018.
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Wearable Motion-based Heart-rate at Rest: A Workplace Evaluation

Hernandez J., McDuff D., Quigley K., Maes P., and Picard R., "Wearable Motion-based Heart-rate at Rest: A Workplace Evaluation," Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2018.
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II: Interoception Improvement

For those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the ability to understand, name, or recognize the sensations signifying different emotional …
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Fast Company's 2024 Innovation by Design Awards: FibeRobo

Congratulations to the FibeRobo project for receiving four honorable mentions!
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence Concept Framework

T² Tool Kit:  A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Framework aiming at  Future Human Diaspora
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Memoro: Using Large Language Models to Realize a Concise Interface for Real-Time Memory Augmentation

Wazeer Deen Zulfikar, Samantha Chan, and Pattie Maes. 2024. Memoro: Using Large Language Models to Realize a Concise Interface for Real-Time Memory Augmentation. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 450, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642450
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FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D Fiber Interfaces by Continuous Drawing of Temperature Tunable Fibers

FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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Thinking Cap

Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…