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From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…
In The Guardian, Pat Pataranutaporn warns that missing AI disclaimers in health content can lead users to trust information too easily.
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Rosalind Picard, head of the Affective Computing group, is among the contributors featured in a recent episode of BBC Rethink.
📚 Full paper (open access)NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a person…
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
This research, recently presented at the AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore by Elinor Poole-Dayan, finds that leading AI models perform…
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
In the latest episode of Who I Met Today, Kye Shimizu discusses the bold and varied projects emerging from MIT Media Lab.
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks (sAIpien)
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency,
Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects iridescent.
MIT Media Lab has developed a prototype that uses generative AI to interpret and distil the contents of a photograph into a fragrance.
Media Lab spinoff Tulip raises $120M at a $1.3B valuation to scale its AI platform for frontline manufacturing worldwide
Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
How AI Became a Third Party in Our Relationships, According to the MIT Media Lab’s Cyborg Psychology Group.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
The Anemoia Device uses generative AI to mix custom scents that complement photographs and create synthetic memories.
FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland talks to Alan Alda about human decision-making and curiosity.
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing
J. Gentinetta, M. F. Fernandez, J. Qiao, M. R. Gonzalez and H. M. Herr, "Biophysical Models With Adaptive Online Learning for Direct Neural Control of Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, pp. 3201-3211, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3599114.
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Can AI Predict Human Happiness? Researchers Simulate Well-Being for 64,000 Individuals WorldwideA new study reveals both promise and peril …
It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
OpenAI’s push for broader appeal raised safety concerns. With new safeguards in place, can the company keep growing at the same pace?
What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?
MIT researchers find chatbot relationships can reduce loneliness, while one in five Americans report intimate A.I. encounters despite risks.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2025. Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 78–89. https://doi.org
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Speculating on life in Zero G, with magnetic cloths that dock us to give us a sense of gravity.