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Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
A digital identity-support game for immigrant-origin youth — co-designed with the school counselors.
A co-present, group-based affective game that helps adults practice emotional intelligence with the friends they already have.
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
Human Operator is a human augmentation tool that allows AI to briefly take control of your body to help you learn and do things you n…
Urban Breath Art, AI, and community in evolving public space
This work demonstrates that LiDAR sensors integrated in consumer imaging systems — such as in smartphones, AR headsets, and self-driving ca…
The Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program at the MIT Media Lab explores research on AI and human psychology. We explore how…
This is Labububot — one of the rarest monsters on Earth. Twelve Labubu heads are reconstituted into a single spherical form: a Franken…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
The State of AI and Human Flourishing Survey is a research initiative from the MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) program exami…
The Global Observatory monitors worldwide impact of AI adoption across cultures, tracking both positive and negative outcomes such as over-…
Personal UI is a Chrome extension that empowers users to customize existing websites to suit their needs and preferences. Companies spend m…
Cities exist to concentrate access to opportunities. A systematic approach to assessing how each person experiences this access is a p…
Reimagining machine perception by using ultra-sensitive single-photon imaging to see farther, faster, and in conditions where conventional …
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
A browser VJ rig for the world's webcams that pipes live EarthCam feeds through a GPU Rutt/Etra synthesizer, the same luminance-to-wirefram…
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…
A computationally aligned stereo pair of the Moon, captured simultaneously from Boston and Santiago during the lunar eclipse on March …
A browser-based video mirror that puts a rolling pupil in each one of your eyes. The sockets get painted white, a heavy little pupil drops …
An ongoing attempt to reconstruct the 1970s Aspen Movie Map as a hierarchical 3D Gaussian Splat scene, built from a 16 mm film sc…
A Gaussian splat reconstruction of 237 frames of the bullet time sequence from The Matrix (1999). A roundtrip from CGI to celluloid and bac…
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…
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
Brainstorming Agents is an interactive system for controlled speculation. Everyday, the backend scrapes trending topics from the news cycle…
Set in 2034, After AGI follows Theos, a disillusioned AI engineer hiding in a bunker after the technology he helped build begins to fractur…
This study explores the feasibility of using smile and smirk expression dynamics, captured through our novel stimulus-based mobile aff…
Ohara is an editorial intelligence layer for the social-media feed you already follow. It collects your diverse social media feeds ,&…
MyFeed is a local-first capture-and-curation layer for the social-media feed you already follow. Installed as a browser extension, it quiet…
Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived RealityVisual media has long served as a …
What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…
People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words—creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe.Modern image …
VoiceTraceCommunity voices you can check.Every year, cities, school districts, and government agencies ask communities for input. Residents…
Coin selection refers to the problem of choosing a set of tokens to fund a transaction in token-based payment systems such as, e.g., crypto…
As AI systems increasingly take on instructional roles — providing feedback, guiding practice, evaluating work — a fundamental question eme…
As AI increasingly enters the classroom, what changes when students collaborate with algorithms instead of peers? We analyzed 36 under…
Read the paper here.According to a report from Menlo Ventures there were about 1.7-1.8 billion people who used large language model (LLM)-b…
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…
New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
More details: iceberg.mit.eduFurther research: media.mit.edu/projects/ai-lpm/overviewAbstractArtificial Intelligence is reshaping Amer…
Shared autonomous bicycles could transform how we move through cities, but their impact depends on how they are designed and integrated. Th…
In 2025, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts convened the Special Commission on Micromobility to examine the rapid emergence of lightweight m…
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their capacity to both enhance and undermine human flourishing demands rigoro…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
The people who help you most don't just respond to what you say. They understand how you think.They know when you're likely to rush a decis…
What does it mean to give artificial intelligence a body? Not a body in the fleshy sense, or even a humanoid shell, but a form through whic…
Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
DNA Canvas is a new platform for assembling nanoscale components using DNA as a programmable interface. By bridging top-down nanofabricatio…