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Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics manufacturing and...
Shrinking problems in 3D printing Although a range of materials can now be fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques, these...
Biplanar fluoroscopy (BiFlo) enables three-dimensional bone kinematics analysis using x-ray videos and bone geometry from segmented CT. H...
Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is jus...
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within t...
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
In this work, we propose a novel fabrication method for 3D objects based on the principle of spooling. By wrapping off-the-shelf material...
This initiative is for identifying cost-efficient and lightweight infrastructure systems for deployment in rapidly urbanizing areas.
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MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...
Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...
Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative citi...
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evo...
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
Approximately 3.5 million people in the US have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), of which about 30% are nonverbal or minimally verbal (mv)...
The fourth industrial revolution has brought new meanings to surveillance in the digital age. In recent years, we have seen the rise of s...
Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
As of August 2019, Ring has active partnerships with over 400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforc...
The Duct Tape Network (DTN) is a series of fun, hands-on maker clubs that encourage young children (ages 7-10) to use cardboard, tape, wo...
How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
The Hol-Deep-Sense project (funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant) aims at holistic machine perception o...
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
Forecasting the supply of fleets to meet emerging travel demands and service needs in citiesThe availability of vehicles is a critical fa...
The lotus flower is an ancient symbol that has been associated with spiritual awakening or enlightenment.In yoga and meditation, the lot...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources...
The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. Simultane...
An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...
Scratch Mondays is an initiative to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018...
O Desafio de Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil é o programa de fellowship da Rede Brasileira de Aprendizagem Criativa. Ele tem como objetivo f...
[Update 12/13/2019: This project has open positions for UROPs/visiting students or interns. One position focuses around electrical engine...
As sea levels rise and habitats are systematically destroyed, analog species are undergoing extinction at an unprecedented rate. But arti...
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Relationship discovery between two entities is a problem that has to be addressed when constructing a Knowledge Base (KB). A solutio...
This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...
How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and a...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
A major concern for manned missions is space radiation. Ionizing radiation is known to pose both acute and chronic risks to many organism...
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...
Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane protein...
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...
Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, chan...
Environmental DNA monitoring has become a standard part of building a picture of our envirome. Unfortunately, most methods of microbial i...
Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...