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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
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Controlling COVID-19: Labor Structure is more important than policy

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat Covid-19 transmission. We exploit a ...
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NoPeek

For distributed machine learning with sensitive data, we demonstrate how minimizing distance correlation between raw data and intermediar...
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Resilience Across Scales

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...
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HERMITS: โ€˜Mechanical Shellsโ€™ for Robotic Tangible UIs

By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly...
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School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parentsโ€”which are increasingly becoming available on sc...
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Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

We are engineering a better healthcare system for people with diabetes and limb loss such that we can physically bridge gaps to...
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Non-full-length G protein-coupled receptors: an unexpected discovery may lead to design new molecular devices

It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue de...
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Labโ€™s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigmaโ€”the lif...
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Commalla: Communication for All

(Note: This project was previously called ECHOS.)  Official Commalla website:  https://commallamit.wixsite.com/commal...
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Project Us

โ€œUsโ€ aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutorsโ€™ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
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AttentivU

AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of glasses,  which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
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ABM Resilient Cities

Agent Based Modeling for behaviours, building occupancy loads and risk infection at the University of Guadalajara. In collaboration ...
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Technology Design for Coffee Production

In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...
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Propel STEM

The Propel program was initiated by Elements of Education to address the disproportionately low rate of girls applying to the STEM-focuse...
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...
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Project Captivate: a wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've des...
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DefeXtiles: 3D Printing Quasi-Textiles (ARS 2020)

Renee Magritte's โ€œTreachery of Imagesโ€ highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a pai...
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DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
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SpaceSkin: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing on protective fabrics in Low Earth Orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space....
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Open Drawing Machine

Open Drawing Machine is a low-cost open source drawing machine for controlling drawing instruments with motors and code, and it is orient...
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Hybrid Sculptures
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Pool Detective

Ever since the introduction of the first mining pool for Bitcoin in November 2010, mining pools have been used by miners to reduce the va...
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PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...
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Viral Vote

Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we havenโ€™t seen and new forms of organization to addr...
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Vote Purple '20

With Vote Purple '20, we are continuing our work of presenting a cognitive middle ground in media consumption - with a targeted focus on ...
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Fascia: Biosensing sleep mask for research in wild

[Fascia is currently under development]Fascia is a smart sleep mask aimed at facilitating sleep studies in natural settings. The mask rec...
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Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. Weโ€™re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of ๐‘ˆ2๐ต, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...