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Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Over 150 Middle School students from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York & New Jersey came to Media Lab for hands on robotics
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
Education is inherently multimodal—we don’t just learn through words, but also through visuals, interactions, and hands-on experiences. Whi…
Danielle Wood was awarded the prize for her work using space technology to create meaningful change for people on Earth.
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
Chwalek, P., Kuronaga, M., Zhu, I. et al. High-Res Acoustic and Environmental Data to Monitor Bombus dahlbomii Amid Invasive Species, Habitat Loss. Sci Data 12, 548 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04877-1
Imagine in the future, you are excited about a big day coming up when you have an interview for your dream job opportunity. You select on y…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
Danielle Wood on Future of Space Exploration on Bloomberg’s The Close.
In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
City Science: Process. Internet Archive, uploaded by Internet Archive, archive.org/details/city‑science‑process. Accessed 15 July 2025.
Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
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As generative AI tools become increasingly present in classrooms, schools face difficult questions about how to guide their use. This proje…
We live in a world where measurement, efficiency, and optimization are too often valued above human needs, interests, and experiences.
By Charlie FinkSan Francisco-based startup Mentra has raised $8 million to launch MentraOS 2.0, an open-source operating system designed sp…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Cherep*, M., Singh*, N., & Shand, J. (2024, July). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
The ninth edition of the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards includes MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman.
Technology for Women’s Health
Pioneering researcher joins the MIT faculty to explore the future of human flourishing with technology.
Dr. Karrie Karahalios and Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn join the faculty, bringing bold interdisciplinary research in algorithmic accountability an
Dünya Baradari, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 57, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3719160.3736623
FutureHouse, co-founded by Sam Rodriques PhD ’19, has developed AI agents to automate key steps on the path toward scientific progress.
NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) is an ambitious MIT initiative developing the foundational infrastructure for a true "Interne…
arXiv:1801.06540 [cs.CY]
Sai Sri Sathya, Praneeth Vepakomma, Ramesh Raskar, Ranjan Ramachandra, Santanu Bhattacharya. arXiv:1812.02428
MIT decentralized AI roundtable: Experts discuss potential & challenges. Topics: global orchestration, user-owned models, P2P protocols. Key
AI Roundtable focused on the growing importance of decentralized systems in artificial intelligence
Keynote TalksRevolutionizing Social Systems Through Large Population Models: Ayush Chopra, MIT Media LabYoutube Link- Click Here
How can we design AI tools that protect the messy, communal discovery at the heart of learning?
Graduate program in music technology and computation brings new dimension to interdisciplinary offerings
More than 100 companies have spun out of the Media Lab.
Students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.
In this episode Maes shares her benchmarks for this goal, along with research on outcomes for humans using AI every day.
Space Architecture: a Domus column by Valentina SuminiSpace architecture is rapidly evolving, merging design, engineering, and human factor…
MIT Ukraine program aims to leverage MIT’s deep strengths in robotics, AI, and sensor technology to support and accelerate demining efforts
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
tl;dr: Agents interact differently than humans—no cognitive limits on coordination. Our internet wasn't designed for this. We need new desi…
My name is Pat, and I recently completed my PhD at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group under the mentorship of Professor Pattie Maes…
Project OverviewThe Atlas of Human-AI Interaction is an innovative framework that maps the complex landscape of empirical findings in human…
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
The AHA Micro Grant at the MIT Media Lab provides $5,000 to $10,000 in funding to support innovative projects that explore AI and Human Flo…
The MIT Media Lab announced the launch of its multi-faculty research program, "Advancing Humans with AI" (AHA)
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their capacity to both enhance and undermine human flourishing demands rigoro…
The Global Observatory monitors worldwide impact of AI adoption across cultures, tracking both positive and negative outcomes such as over-…
Join AHA and become part of a community advancing human flourishing with AI. Through your support, we hope to advance awareness and real-wo…
M. T. Islam, D. Liu and D. Sarkar, “Kernel Alignment using Manifold Approximation” International Conference on Learning Representations (2025)
Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.
MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro. 2022. Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy. In Proceedings of The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’22). 955-959. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477314.3507230
Chapter by Danielle R. Wood in summer 2025 reading from MIT
Advances of AI chatbots like ChatGPT heighten concern, experts say.
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…