TD Bank: What does a branch do that an app can't?
TD Bank and MIT Media Lab reimagine banking through human-centered AI design—technology that augments human judgment, not replaces it.
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We work where ideas collide. Membership brings your organization right into the middle of it.
Meet people exploring beyond your field. Bring your expertise to the conversation. Your organization helps sustain open-ended research while discovering new possibilities for its own work.
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Organizations around the world working with us to reimagine and redesign what comes next.
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Don't predict the future. Build it.
Membership shifts your organization from reacting to the future to actively shaping it. You gain front-row access to unasked questions and royalty-free IP. It connects your team to a relentless network of pioneers, brings you onto the lab floor with premier talent, and turns corporate goals into real-world impact. This isn't research you read—it’s a mindset you practice.
Member collaborations Different expertise. New possibilities.
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113 Spring: New hire, meet your older self.
How can AI support career development? MIT Media Lab + 113 Spring use Future You platform to help retail employees envision their futures.
Castrol: Before the moon, a lava tube in the Canary Islands.
Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
KIOXIA: How much of the wild fits on a memory card?
This collaboration exemplifies how responsive and decentralized technologies can support global conservation efforts.
NEC: Stress has mostly been asked about, not measured.
NEC and MIT Media Lab study wearable sensor data to detect chronic stress in working adults using 250,000+ hours of EDA data.
Honeywell: Can software spot a failure before it happens?
Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.
DP World: 170 countries, one classroom question.
Global leaders join MIT and DP World in Dubai to advance global AI literacy and equitable education at the first Day of AI Global Summit.
Dell: Commercial lunar travel may be a generation away.
A panel from MIT Media Lab and Dell highlights a lunar mission using AI and XR to advance human-centered, sustainable space exploration.
Murata: The Media Lab went to the factory.
A group of Media Lab community members traveled to Japan in late January 2025 to host a series of presentations for current and prospective member companies, as well as MIT alumni. They visited the MuRata research and production facilities, as well as the Global Business Hub Tokyo, where they intro…
Get close to the work as it takes form.
Membership comes to life through Lab visits, customized company days, and twice-yearly member gatherings.
At member gatherings, research becomes a conversation: open labs, demonstrations, and time with the people doing the work.
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This is a place where there are people who are asking the questions we haven't even thought about... we just get a better level of visibility to see things early.
John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer, Dell Technologies
On City Science's CityScope table, every move updates a live simulation of how the community could perform.
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