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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
Space Exploration Initiative
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
Johnson, Arielle, Caleb B. Harper, et al. “Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture: Optimization of Plant Metabolites in an Open-Source Control Environment through Surrogate Modeling.” PLOS ONE 14, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): e0213918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213918.
The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...
Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The Tree Computer is a robotic greenhouse built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide rang...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls.
“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in natu...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.
“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communicati...
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...
We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.
"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.
OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...
Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.
It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industria...
Caleb Harper's TED Talk
Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.