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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form o…

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MultiDIC: a MATLAB Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation

Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechanica…

Neural Interfaces

Nerve-Muscle Graft Chamber and micro-channel arrays tor interface to peripheral nerves for prosthesis control. This research effort co…

Transdermal Optogenetic Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable goal…

Terrain-Adaptive Lower Limb Prosthesis

Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or stair…

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 walk…

Neural interface technology for advanced prosthetic limbs

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

Magnetomicrometry: Tissue Tracking via Implanted Magnetic Beads

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

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Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs

System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.

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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It…

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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Organic Primitives

A large portion of the chemical and biological processes underlying our everyday experience remains imperceptible to us. Be it the contents…

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Fluifiber: Interweaving Dancing Bodies over Time and Space via Programmable Tensegrity

Dimensions of human movement that are absent from the eye, such as pressures, muscular tensions, and external features, are represent…

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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…

Flexible dry electrodes for EMG acquisition within prosthetic sockets

Acquisition of surface electromyography (sEMG) from a person with an amputated lower extremity (LE) during prosthesis-assisted walking rema…

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DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE co…

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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.

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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …

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AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. But …

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Human-Machine Cooperation

Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with human …

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LineFORM

We propose a novel shape-changing interface that consists of a single line. Lines have several interesting characteristics from the perspec…

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Programmable Droplets

State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually ass…

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Printflatables: Printing human-scale, functional, and dynamic inflatable objects

Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specifyi…

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Learning Loops

Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …

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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…

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Digital Life

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PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

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Marauder's Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receiver …

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Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…

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Pollock Patterns

“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting”…

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Paper Dreams: An Interactive Interface for Generative Visual Expression

Bernal, Guillermo, Lily Zhou, Haripriya Mehta, and Pattie Maes. NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, December 14, 2019.

Cilllia: 3D-printed micro pillar structures for surface texture, actuation, and sensing

In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well-k…

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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.

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Emotionally Aware Robot Teammates

Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!

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Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

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Designing robots in mixed reality

This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laboratory)…

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On prosthetic control: A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface

S. S. Srinivasan, M. J. Carty, P. W. Calvaresi, T. R. Clites, B. E. Maimon, C. R. Taylor, A. N. Zorzos, H. Herr, On prosthetic control : A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface, 2, eaan2971 (2017).

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Advancing Wellbeing

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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfa…

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…

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Understanding machine behaviour

CIFAR Fellows Hugo Larochelle and Matthew Jackson argue for a new scientific discipline to study the broad effects of AI.

Machine behaviour

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.

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Studying the behavior of AI

A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior

RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…

SkinBot: A wearable, skin-climbing robot

We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and captu…

Experiential Lighting: New user interfaces for lighting control

The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered to…

Escape Pod

The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work lives…

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Why we should show machines some respect

Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.

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Communications Futures Program

Amoetecture

Amoeba Wall: a context aware wall system. Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors, cei…

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Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.