The MIT Media Lab

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium.

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.

The Multisensory Intelligence research group studies the foundations of multisensory artificial intelligence to create human-AI symbiosis.

The Critical Matter group envisions a future for design that goes beyond the mere application of technology.

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology.

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis.

Engaging people in creative learning experiences.

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.

Designing systems for cognitive support

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection.

Enhancing human physical capability.

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Democratizing access to space.

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering.

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts