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Alma Jam among 2025 MIT SA+P's Infinite Mile Award winners

Media Lab staff member is one of the recipients of the 2025 SA+P Infinite Mile Award

City Science Lab @ Israel

The MIT City Science team will work with Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheba on a new collaboration to create the City Science Lab @ I…

City Science Lab @ Shanghai

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …

City Science Lab @ San Francisco

City Science researchers are working with various stakeholders from San Francisco to develop a community engagement platform to analyze and…

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…

City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…

City Science Lab @ Andorra

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

City Science Lab @ Biobío

The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…

City Science Lab @ Gipuzkoa

The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…

City Science Lab @ Taipei

The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …

Manuel Cherep and Pattie Maes from Fluid Interfaces granted 2024 Amazon Research Award

Researchers from Fluid Interfaces receive 2024 Amazon Research Award for work in AWS AI research area.

Media Lab Community Awards and Recognitions 2024

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules here.

Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions

Guardian Ag’s autonomous crop-spraying drones make farming safer and more efficient, backed by MIT’s E14 Fund and strong grower demand.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

BuzzCam

Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…

2025 Graduates of Team Space Enabled

The Space Enabled research group celebrates the graduation of several students who completed their degrees between 2024-2025. Congrat…

Mood on Move: Inferencing mood in the wild through commercial smartwatches

Mood on Move leverages the potential of widely available commercial smartwatches to infer and monitor mood states in real-world settings. U…

SomaSync: Haptic Heartbeat Feedback for Enhancing Interoceptive Awareness and Mental Wellbeing

AbstractSomaSync explores how real-time haptic heartbeat feedback can enhance interoceptive awareness and mental well-being by fostering a …

Evidence for a deep sleep homeostatic response in ambulatory settings

Chylek, D., Fedor, S., Zhang, B., Nathan, V., Freedman, M., Stickgold, R., & Picard, R. (2025, June). Evidence for a deep sleep homeostatic response in ambulatory settings. SLEEP 2025: 38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Seattle, WA, United States.

Preliminary analysis of in-space servicing governance and the challenge of continuing supervision

Jacqueline H. Smith, Moriba Jah, Danielle Wood, Preliminary analysis of in-space servicing governance and the challenge of continuing supervision, Acta Astronautica, Volume 234, 2025, Pages 690-706, ISSN 0094-5765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.04.046.

EVDT for Space Sustainability

Software tools within the EVDT for Space Sustainability suite model the current and future space environment, estimate the consequences of …

Estimating Central Circadian Phase with Wrist-Worn Spectrophotometer in Ambulatory Environment

Zhang, B., Fedor, S., Stickgold, R., Freedman, M., Nathan, V., Viswanath, V. K., Rahman, S., Duffy, J. F., Czeisler, C. A., & Picard, R. W. (2025, June). Estimating central circadian phase with wrist-worn spectrophotometer in ambulatory environment. Presented at SLEEP 2025: 38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Seattle, WA, United States.

Technology Roadmap: The Internet of Forests

Rico, Andres, and Kent Larson. Technology Roadmap: The Internet of Forests. Self-published, 1 Oct. 2023.

Brain-reading devices raise ethical dilemmas — researchers propose protections

Media Lab’s Nataliya Kosmyna comments in Nature on new global ethical guidelines for neurotechnologies drafted by UNESCO.

How IM-2 payload operators made the most of the mission’s landing issues

IM-2’s sideways lunar landing didn’t stop Media Lab researchers and collaborators from gaining insights from their onboard experiments.

TypeContour: Interactive Installation Exploring Typography and Body

A virtual world painted with letters and words.

Digital Flute with Ethnic Samples

A PCB flute with custom hardware and firmware.

How the Aspen Movie Map changed how we think about navigating

Dr. Andrew Lippman talks about the Aspen Movie Map—a classic project from the Architecture Machine Group, which preceded the Media Lab.

Aspen Movie Map

Created in the late 1970’s, the Aspen Movie Map was a groundbreaking interactive virtual tour of the real-world city of Aspen, Colorado.

Archived

HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…

Archived

Member Collaboration Spotlight

Collaborating for ImpactInnovation at the MIT Media Lab thrives through connection. Working with leading organizations, we tackle complex c…

Professor Tod Machover named Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab

Dean Hashim Sarkis announced that Professor Tod Machover has been named Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1.

Michael Naimark reflects on the Aspen Movie Map

Media Lab alum Michael Naimark, part of the original team who created the Aspen Movie Map, has written extensively about the project.

Déjà View

MIT’s 1979 interactive map of Aspen, CO, anticipated one of Google’s hottest tools

Architecture Machine Group

The Aspen Movie Map Beat Google Street View by 34 Years

Imagine a virtual reality mapping environment designed to perfectly replicate a city’s streets and buildings—in 1978.

Archived

Zero Gravity Flight 2025

Founded in 2016 and now in our ninth year, we set our sights on space. The Space Exploration Initiative has since grown to 5…

New digital biomarkers and interventions to monitor and improve sleep and mental wellbeing

Imagine in the future, you are excited about a big day coming up when you have an interview for your dream job opportunity. You select on y…

Multisensory Intelligence

Professor Joe Paradiso named Academic Head for Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Dean Hashim Sarkis announced that Professor Joe Paradiso has been named Academic Head of MAS, effective July 1.

Research

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing

Teaching Machines to See Medicine: How AI is Learning to Think Like a Doctor Across Every Medical Specialty

When you visit a doctor, they don't just look at one thing. Your physician might listen to your heart, examine an X-ray, review your blood …

Luna: A moon on Earth

MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design + engineering

Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the Lullaby Project’s international convening

Lecamwasam, K., Bartleet, B. L., Ortiz, T., & Koebner, I. (2025). Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening. Arts & Health, 1-11.

The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring

Kimaya Lecamwasam. 2024. The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678355

Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications

Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856

City Science Lab @ Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Toronto Metropolitan University. The groups plan to build and work…

Sleep Regularity and Duration are associated with Daily Self-Reported Wellbeing

Choi, S., Fedor, S., Stickgold, R., Sano, A., Nathan, V., Freedman, M., & Picard, R. (2024). Sleep regularity and duration are associated with daily self-reported wellbeing. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE.

Predicting self-reported wellbeing from sleep with mixed effects random forest.

Choi, S., Fedor, S., Stickgold, R., Nathan, V., Freedman, M., & Picard, R. (2024). Predicting self-reported wellbeing from sleep with mixed effects random forest. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE.

Cambridge Public School Outreach

By Cody Paige, Space Exploration InitiativeCollaborators: Jessica Todd, Madelyn Hoying, Palak Patel, Marianna Rogers, Leila FreitagWorking …

Tangible Media research on front cover of Advanced Science May 2025 issue

E-LIG, laser-enabled method for flexible printed electronics, is on the May 2025 Advanced Science cover

Research

WHx

WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies

TED: How to build in space for life on Earth

At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.

Applying the EVDT Systems Engineering Framework and satellite Earth Observation data for mapping SDG15 indicators in Ghana

Wood, Danielle, Temilola Fatoyinbo, David Lagomasino, Kofi Asare, Charles Kofi Som, Selaseh Akaho, Caroline Doe et al. "Applying the EVDT Systems Engineering Framework and Satellite Earth Observation Data for Mapping SDG15 Indicators in Ghana." Acta Astronautica 234 (2025) 754-782.

E - LIG

We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …

Re-Imaginando La Costanera - 2023

Research

sAIpien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks

Research spotlight: Eran Egozy on blending music and technology

Media Lab alum talks about founding MIT’s new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.

LIMITER: the Microtonal Arcade Machine

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…

“Design a future so beautiful that history itself has to stop to take a breath.” — Dr. Dava Newman inspires 2025 LCAD graduates

Dr. Dava Newman challenged graduates to merge creativity with purpose, science with soul, and design with direction.

Prof. Deblina Sarkar’s Work on Nanoelectronics-Based Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer Highlighted by ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation

Prof. Sarkar’s nanoelectronic devices are poised to provide potentially life-saving treatment for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)