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AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
Former Media Lab Professor John Maeda talks to Danielle Newnham about computational thinking and what it takes to cultivate curiosity.
Kate Darling discusses the work she's done to be seen as an expert within human-robot interaction and how to pass that power onto others.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
Magnetomicrometry has exciting prospects for the control of wearable robotics, including prostheses and exoskeletons.
Transforming data into knowledge
Health 0.0
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have develope…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
PCB debugging can be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic, switch to PCB layout to s…
“Power Props” is a sensor and actuator platform for Live Action Role Playing (LARP), immersive theater, theme park, and other transmedia ex…
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Open Ocean
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the bo…
We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self-a…
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity fo…
One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and can…
Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of e…
Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart, …
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evolv…
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, how …
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arousal…
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optimiz…
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respiratory…
New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Comin…
Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.
Alum Shriya Srinivasan, Dr. Matthew Carty, climber Jim Ewing, and others join STAT and Nova PBS for a conversation about the Augmented film.
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Augmented is a Nova PBS documentary produced by STAT News, which follows the development of a new amputation procedure and bionic prostheses
SynopsisThe class will cover a wide range of perspectives on deepfakes, from their historical ancestors through their philosophical underpi…
DropletIO proposes aqueous droplets as a programmable material for biology, art, and design. The DropletIO system can actuate and sense mac…
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
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…
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechanica…
Nerve-Muscle Graft Chamber and micro-channel arrays tor interface to peripheral nerves for prosthesis control. This research effort co…
Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable goal…
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or stair…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and powe…
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It…
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
A large portion of the chemical and biological processes underlying our everyday experience remains imperceptible to us. Be it the contents…
Dimensions of human movement that are absent from the eye, such as pressures, muscular tensions, and external features, are represent…
Acquisition of surface electromyography (sEMG) from a person with an amputated lower extremity (LE) during prosthesis-assisted walking rema…
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE co…
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …
Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. But …
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with human …