MIT researchers have shown that they can accurately track muscle movement using tiny magnetic beads implanted in the muscle.
The performances at MIT's Thomas Tull Concert Hall will include a world premiere with the MIT Chamber Chorus.
MIT Media Lab's AI music agent jam_bot performs live with Jordan Rudess and the MIT Chamber Chorus at MIT Future Fest, October 3, 2026.
A new paper from the Responsive Environments group puts real-time bee identification on a low-power chip inside the BuzzCam field recorder.
WHx 2026 Enabling Grants spotlight five MIT Media Lab projects advancing women’s health research, clinical collaboration, and translation.
A collaboration between Responsive Environments and Fluid Interfaces wins the Lasting Impact Award at ACM Augmented Humans 2026.
Joseph Paradiso’s sensing research at MIT Media Lab bridges art, medicine, and ecology through wearable sensors and environmental monitoring
MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
"Key challenges remain in creating integrated systems that offer seamless interaction and rich user experiences."
Joe Paradiso is named as an IEEE Fellow for his work in wearable sensing and mobile energy harvesting.
Since 2013, MIT researchers go to Asia every year to scale their research, and explore the local manufacturing ecosystem...
This project won the Best Design Exhibition award in the functional category, as part of the conference's Design Exhibition
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
The wristband may prove useful for mobile and assistive tech.
Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.
In May 2025, the Media Lab was honored to host an immersive 3-day celebration of Mort Subotnick’s legacy of groundbreaking electronic music.
Dean Hashim Sarkis announced that Professor Joe Paradiso has been named Academic Head of MAS, effective July 1.
Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
This collaboration exemplifies how responsive and decentralized technologies can support global conservation efforts.
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
The Space Exploration Initiative’s 2022 microgravity flight features lunar-specific payloads in advance of an upcoming moon mission
A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!
Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
The research team was awarded for their proposal titled: "Modernizing photovoltaic textiles for scalability and wearable applications.”
Joe Paradiso talks to host Susan Kish about high-energy physics, wearables, electronic music, science fiction, and the metaverse.
The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
Join MAS.S61 every Thursday for a public lecture on the Metaverse Connect at the link below:(NEW) Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/939…
Joe Paradiso talks to Data Nation podcast hosts Liberty Vittert and Scott Tranter about the metaverse - what it is and what it isn't.
Media Lab director Dava Newman and professors Tod Machover and Joseph Paradiso spoke during a tribute to Glorianna Davenport.
Ali Shtarbanov + Juliana Cherston of the Lab's Responsive Environments group each won top prizes in the Create the Future Design Contest.
We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
Congratulations to Ali Shtarbanov and Irmandy Wicaksono!
MIT researchers created a smart textile linked up with a machine learning system.
Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
Two projects led by Irmandy Wicaksono of the Responsive Environments group, with collaborators, have been honored as finalists.
Congratulations to project team researchers Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, and collaborator Loni Landon!
Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
Webinar Series " Design Exploration: towards a Moon Architecture" | Invited talks and students' projects.
Photo gallery of the Webinar Series "Design Exploration: towards a Moon Architecture" with all the invited talks that contributed to …
Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments
"We set out to explore this topic as projected into twin demons relating to attention."
Responsive Environments head Joe Paradiso talks to Xapiens at MIT about art, physics, history, music, books and movies, and much, much more!
Figur8, founded by alum Nan-Wei Gong, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
Including interviews with two Labbers—research specialist Kate Darling and Cyber Joe, a sci-fi version of Professor Joe Paradiso.
As a part of Proseminar in Media Arts and Sciences, the newly-minted PhD cohort works together to envision future Media Lab research groups
Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.
Developed by a team of Media Lab researchers, SpaceHuman is a seahorse-inspired additive prosthetic for use in microgravity environments.
Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is in the new episode of our podcast.
Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.