The mission of the Space Enabled research group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our mess...
Our world is full of signals, some of which we see and others which are invisible. These signals range from wifi to brain waves. The perv...
The Mediated Matter group focuses on Nature-inspired design and design-inspired Nature. We conduct research at the intersection of comput...
The Poetic Justice group creates work with rhythm and harmony that extends our perceptions and exposes the social-political systems ...
Welcome!The MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) is on a mission to create healthier, more engaging, and more inventive fut...
We build software that shapes our cities. More specifically, (1) we create micro-institutions in physical space, (2) we design social ...
Robots are an intriguing technology that can straddle both the physical and social world of people. Inspired by animal and human behavior...
looks at broadcasting in a broader way, as all aspects of the media business�from content capture to delivery�become digital, and as a ne...
is focused on developing a digitally connected, self-aware kitchen with knowledge and memory of its activities. The program explores new ...
explores how computation and communication can enrich the lives of older persons now and in the decades ahead. It focuses on making the t...
is about making things, and about the future of how things are made, from nano- to macroscale. It has two basic goals: first, to involve ...
explores ways that the digital revolution will transform the world of toys and play: old toys will become smarter; new toys will become p...
is focused on understanding devices, technology, and humans as they interface in a market setting; the new forms that transactions may ta...
looks at cars in the digital world. It explores the implications and applications of human-machine interface research, advances in person...
combines research in the areas of nanotechnology, biosensors, body networks and smart homes to give consumers the tools to take control o...
explores how micro- and nanoscale fabrication technologies offer fundamentally new ways to probe, to understand, and ultimately to contro...
looks beyond low-cost tags to ask how billions of inexpensive communicating objects can be tied together into coherent systems.
In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, a...
Visual media has irretrievably lost its lock on the audience but has gained unprecedented opportunity to evolve the platform by which it ...
As more of our personal and public lives become infused and shaped by data from sensors and computing devices, the lines between the digi...
Most of us are awash in consumer electronics (CE) devices: from cellphones, to TVs, to dishwashers. They provide us with information, ent...
The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic...
Cultural Resonation is the underlying philosophy and energy that informs all aspects of our work. Code Next (CN) is a Media Lab collabora...
The deeply symbiotic relationship between our planet and ourselves is increasingly mediated by technology. Ubiquitous, networked sensing ...
Data is ubiquitous in a world where our understanding of it is not. The Pixel Factory is a special interest group working to help people ...
The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Wo...
The Consumer Electronics Laboratory provides a unique research environment to explore ideas, make things, and innovate in new directions...
Through the Hundred-Dollar Laptop initiative, the Media Lab is working with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit association that jo...
The Communications Futures Program conducts research on industry dynamics, technology opportunities, and regulatory issues that form the ...
The Autism & Communication Technology Initiative utilizes the unique features of the Media Lab to foster the development of innovativ...
Most of us are awash in consumer electronics (CE) devices: from cellphones, to TVs, to dishwashers. They provide us with information, ent...
Living Labs is a new program that brings end users into the process of inventing a better future. The goal is to understand the adoption,...
The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic...
Instead of building on a reactive health-care system centered around treating disease rather than preventing it, the Lab's Social Health ...
Our lives have been transformed by networks that combine people and computers in new ways. They have revolutionized the nature of the eco...
Visual Media is going through fundamental changes. It has irretrievability lost its lock on the audience but has gained unprecedented opp...
The deeply symbiotic relationship between our planet and ourselves is increasingly mediated by technology. Ubiquitous, networked sensing ...
The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of impo...
The MIT Knowledge Futures Group (KFG), a new joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press, develops and deploys techno...
The ocean is vast. It covers more than 70% of the surface of our planet and holds 97% of the water on Earth. The ocean is exciting. ...
The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group is an adventurous scientific voyage, fusing engineering, applied physics, and biology to bridg...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops new technologies and activities that, in the spirit of the blocks and finger paint of kindergart...
Society today is shifting its trust from large, central systems to decentralized ones. These systems present a diffuse target for attack,...
The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses mach...
Humanity's capacity to engineer the living world is a collective concern that requires collective engagement. While synthetic biology has...
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical...
Things That Think is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. Toward this end, Things That Think researchers...
The Center for Mobile Learning invents and studies new mobile technologies to promote learning anywhere anytime for anyone. The Center fo...
The Molecular Machines group is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro scale engineering, which seeks to understand and approach the...
We want to increase the value of computing for the times when we are away from conventional screen and keyboard computers. To this end, w...
Evolved systems are very different from technologies designed by humans. They're harder to predict and sometimes evolve away from intende...
The Design Fiction group is not accepting new students. The Design Fiction group designs projects to stimulate discussion about the ...
We explore how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception, while developing new sensing modalities...
The Internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an arti...
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...
The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rath...
Half of the world's population currently suffers from some form of physical or neurological disability. At some point in our lives, it is...
The Director’s Fellows program is creating a diverse global network empowered by technology from the MIT Media Lab.MIT Media Lab Director...
The mission of the Media Lab’s new Ethics initiative is to foster multi-disciplinary program designs and critical conversations around et...
Communities need information to make decisions and take action: to provide aid to neighbors in need, to purchase an environmentally susta...
Our research is exploring a "constructionist" approach to the development of personal and community publishing tools in order to help inc...