• Search Search
  • User Login
  • Nav Nav
Search
  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal
We are an interdisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of
  • health

  • art

  • human-machine interaction

  • learning

  • artificial intelligence

  • robotics

  • architecture

  • consumer electronics

  • design

  • technology

  • kids

  • music

  • wearable computing

  • networks

  • politics

  • entertainment

  • bioengineering

  • economy

  • cognition

  • history

  • human-computer interaction

  • data

  • archives

  • machine learning

  • social science

  • storytelling

  • sensors

  • interfaces

  • space

  • environment

  • wellbeing

  • covid19

  • computer science

  • developing countries

  • prosthetics

  • engineering

  • privacy

  • social robotics

  • ethics

  • civic technology

  • social media

  • civic media

  • imaging

  • synthetic biology

  • communications

  • neurobiology

  • urban planning

  • public health

  • augmented reality

  • affective computing

  • virtual reality

  • biology

  • transportation

  • energy

  • community

  • biomechanics

  • data visualization

  • social change

  • biotechnology

  • computer vision

  • industry

  • ocean

  • 3d printing

  • zero gravity

  • alumni

  • food

  • government

  • genetics

  • blockchain

  • racial justice

  • agriculture

  • manufacturing

  • medicine

  • gaming

  • data science

  • women

  • prosthetic design

  • construction

  • creativity

  • materials

  • social networks

  • fashion

  • open source

  • behavioral science

  • banking and finance

  • security

  • crowdsourcing

  • cryptocurrency

  • systems

  • collective intelligence

  • climate change

  • makers

  • wiesner

  • fabrication

  • internet of things

  • language learning

  • performance

  • neural interfacing and control

  • cognitive science

  • bionics

  • interactive

  • ecology

  • autonomous vehicles

  • perception

  • human augmentation

  • civic action

  • nonverbal behavior

  • mapping

  • extended intelligence

  • physiology

  • visualization

  • startup

  • diversity

  • physics

  • clinical science

  • holography

  • long-term interaction

  • gesture interface

  • networking

  • point of care

  • sports and fitness

  • autism research

  • orthotic design

  • marginalized communities

  • water

  • trust

  • natural language processing

  • electrical engineering

  • voice

  • microfabrication

  • hacking

  • mechanical engineering

  • nanoscience

  • pharmaceuticals

  • member company

  • primary healthcare

  • mechatronics

  • clinical trials

  • trade

  • academia

  • member event

  • open access

  • microbiology

  • gender studies

  • rfid

  • soft-tissue biomechanics

  • chemistry

  • real estate

  • randomized experiment

  • publishing

  • biomedical imaging

  • gis

  • event

  • exhibit

  • cartography

  • metamaterials

  • installation

  • code

  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Centers
  • Initiatives
More Close
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...

in ML Learning · Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Jennifer Chow +4 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
Project Research

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...

in City Science
Naroa Sanchez
#robotics #design #energy +6 more
Project Research

Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Hugh Herr · Matthew Carney
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +12 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Project Research

Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #health #imaging +3 more
Project Research

On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or mask...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +6 more
Project Research

Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With ...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Manvitha Ponnapati +1 more
#biology #public health #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to ba...

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #sensors +4 more
Project Research

Biomarker Imaging with Mobile Phones

We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porph...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #health #imaging +2 more
Project Research

At-Home Sleep Apnea Screening

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apne...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #engineering #point of care
Project Research

Detecting Biomarkers with Printable Paper Diagnostics

Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #health #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #health #imaging +3 more
Project Research

Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #synthetic biology #machine learning +5 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Project Research

The EBIFA robot (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away)

EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

[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...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Integrated Complex Systems Modeling for Sustainable Development

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques f...

in Space Enabled
Jack Reid
#social science #engineering
Project Research

Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Harpreet Sareen
#design #manufacturing #space +3 more
Project Research

ORBIT (Olfactory Response Baseline Identification Test)

I am currently developing a new approach in conducting sensory examinations via the Olfactory Response Baseline Identification Test (O.R....

in Opera of the Future
Alexandra Rieger
#interfaces #engineering #medicine +1 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...

Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
Project Research

Tracking Marine Snow

Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), which refers to the transport of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the ocean’s surface to the bottom, d...

in Responsive Environments · Open Ocean
Junsu Jang
#environment #sensors #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Matthew Handford · Matthew Carney +4 more
#robotics #design #bioengineering +15 more
Project Research

Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...

in ML Learning · Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson · Rosalind W. Picard +1 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +4 more
Project Research

Theme | Engineering Dreams

We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mind. As the dreamer descends into sleep, we track different sl...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +5 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +2 more
Project Research

Ultra-scalable and energy-efficient nanoelectronics

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, wit...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#synthetic biology #engineering #nanoscience
Project Research

Mechatronic Systems

Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Matthew Handford · Lucy Du +8 more
#robotics #computer science #biomechanics +4 more
Project Research

Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...

in Mediated Matter
Sunanda Sharma · Christoph Bader +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

Circuit Stickers

Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Jie Qi +2 more
#art #learning #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

Non-Ionizing Imaging for Medical Diagnosis Instead of 2D Radiography and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...

in Health 0.0
Aman Rana · Gregory Yauney +2 more
#computer vision #health #imaging +1 more
Project Research

Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...

in Mediated Matter
Steven Keating · Julian Leland +3 more
#architecture #construction #storytelling +2 more
Project Research

The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...

in Conformable Decoders
Farita Tasnim · Canan Dagdeviren
#design #bioengineering #health +4 more
Project Research

City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning #storytelling +3 more
Project Research

Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Felix Kraemer · Ri Ren +2 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +9 more
Project Research

Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

An osseointegrated prosthesis with bi-directional neural communication

Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Hugh Herr · Matthew Carney +5 more
#robotics #design #bioengineering +7 more
Project Research

Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian network approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...

in City Science
Ronan Doorley · Kent Larson +2 more
#data #networks #engineering
Project Research

TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...

in Signal Kinetics
Yunfei Ma · Fadel Adib +1 more
#robotics #computer science #technology +3 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Markus Kayser +3 more
#design #architecture #synthetic biology +2 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +5 more
Project Research

Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Dental Caries

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...

in Health 0.0
Keith Angelino · Pratik Shah
#computer vision #bioengineering #health +3 more

  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal

More ways to explore

  • Videos
  • Publications
  • Job Opportunities
  • Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning

Accessibility
Donate to the Lab