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What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
I usually work with code that creates images, which I means I can easily explore the system using more code. Here, I wanted to see what I c…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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…
LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
Set in 2034, After AGI follows Theos, a disillusioned AI engineer hiding in a bunker after the technology he helped build begins to fractur…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
Finding Your Voice investigates the complexities of self-voice recognition and agency, focusing on the neurological processes that shape ho…
A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
The gondola, a timeless and iconic symbol of Venice and love, embarks on a new journey at the Venice Biennale Arte 2024 (https://www.labien…
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
Playing the Room is an audio technology project that explores the relationship between music performance and physical space, as well as wit…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…