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Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for ...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
This research track focuses on the use of computational (and experimental) techniques to understand the biomechanical behavior of human t...
The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques f...
Analyzing intracellular communication in plant tissues in correspondence to microgravity parabolasPlants have signaling pathways that are...
Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transfor...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
It is increasingly hard for adults and children alike to be attentive given the increasing amounts of information and distractions surrou...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In order to operate,...
Paraffin wax (common candlewax) shows promise as a high-performing hybrid rocket propellant for chemical propulsion systems. Its inherent...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Sensors, especially biosensors, are indispensable for modern society due to their wide applications in public healthcare, national and ho...
For understanding the brain structure, it is necessary to decipher the nanoscale organization of the biomolecular building blocks of the ...
Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with applications ranging from smart cities, health care, defense, economy, government, educ...
Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical tools for in-vivo interrogation of our biological systems in order to answer fundamen...
We are developing nano-devices using meta-materials that can non-invasively and remotely monitor and modulate our bio...
The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable, 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to inc...
The Humanizing AI in Law (HAL) project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due-pro...
Despite gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership defi...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
This pedagogy of experiments seeks to accurately model and manufacture a new form of lighting fixtures and framework around architectural...
The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the future of space exploration. As such, we a...
The aim of this project is to create an open source digital library with open data sets that cross link phenotypic response in plant...
Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-se...
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...
The control of living systems as part of design interfaces is of interest to both the scientific and design communities due to the abilit...
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...
The Tree Computer is a robotic greenhouse built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide rang...
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...
The Democratizing Science project is opening up MIT Media Lab research in the form of STEAM learning programs in three elementa...
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Every day, data about our environment, education, routes, and other aspects of our lives become available. Yet most people often struggle...
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...
Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as ...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Unfolding the way we move. Mobility has shaped the built environment since humans started settling together. From industrial towns t...
The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key creature co...
NeuroKnit is the interplay between the physical and virtual that is explored in response to the current lack of culture, expression, and ...
College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version o...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
Using a femtosecond laser and a camera with a time resolution of about one trillion frames per second, we recover objects hidden out of s...
Can a modified snap bracelet be used to land infrastructure on an asteroid? It is notoriously difficult to stick a landing on a low ...
This research presents water-based robotic fabrication as a design approach and enabling technology for additive manufacturing (AM) of bi...
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
Self-Advertising reclaims and repurposes attention from advertising media online. As we use the Internet, we often feel ad...
Living Distance is a mission and a fantasy realized, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Carried...
The Hol-Deep-Sense project (funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant) aims at holistic machine perception o...
Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhe...
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...