Electrical stimulation (FES) is the current clinical stimulation modality used to restore function and provide therapy in a variety of cl...
Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
#MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders recognized with $250,000 award
I would like to start with a mind-ingrained conversation at my 7th birthday party on the 4th of May, 1992, between my late grandfather an...
Social robots could potentially aid therapists working with autistic children in the future.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.
Our new cohort is the most diverse yet—bringing together graduate students from eight Media Lab research groups.
The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
A note of support to the trans community at the Media Lab and MIT
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has proven to be a versatile tool for genome editing, with numerous implications in medicine, agriculture, bi...
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...
Jan Fuller is an expert in digital forensics: investigating and analyzing evidence from computers and digital devices.
Kate Darling's TED Talk
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge
At 21, Jaylen Brown is a polymath and a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.
By Monica Orta
New MIT-hosted database is open to both examiners and the wider public, and seeks to reduce the number of wrongly-issued patents.
Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative lea...
Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...
Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt
Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.
Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards
Rethinking photography optics in the time dimensionWhat if we could design optics in time instead of space?
Fall is here, hear the yell/Back to school, ring the bell
Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and cap...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...
The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.
It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
Academia
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a novel wearable olfa...
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
I grew up in a small town in Transylvania, and will always remember the day when I assembled my first computer and loaded the first mp3 s...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Tuesday May 29, 2018 ...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
New cohort brings social, scientific, and creative experience to extend the Lab’s reach beyond academia.
An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
Interaction Design category
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...