Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizen...

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space....

Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread ...

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've des...

“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 b...

RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It c...

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...

Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...

Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the ...

A proof of concept demonstration for a voxel-based reconfigurable space structure based on electromagnetically actuated picosatellites. I...

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...

Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a ...

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...

"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includ...

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in...

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self ...

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food ...

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surv...

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Ante...

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propell...

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar ...

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activitie...

By Rachel BellisleThe Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronauts that has ...

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to exp...

The Space Sustainability RatingNews Updates!The Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the Europe...

An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

We have significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the laboratory to develop novel bioengine...

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile f...

Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&n...

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring ...

There are currently  UROP openings for this project.  All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...

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

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

We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the sk...

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu.&nb...

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future...

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...

Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...

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

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...

​We imagine equipping electronic skins with a sense of attention in order to operate more efficiently in resource constrained environment...

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for insta...

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...

Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...

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...

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...