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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Mnemo is a prosthetic memory system to extend the capabilities of human memory. Mnemo uses physiological signals as well as m...
By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.
Looking beyond smart cities
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Open Ocean
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Enhancing human physical capability
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
Thesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute ...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Transforming data into knowledge
O. Rudovic, J. Lee, M. Dai, B. Schuller, R. W. Picard, Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy. Sci. Robot. 3, eaao6760 (2018).
Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Emerging Worlds
Rana el Kaliouby is now helping AI understand human emotion. Rosalind Picard pioneered the field of affective computing.
Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, set out to underline the close connections between art and technology.
Center for Extreme Bionics
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area: an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work liv...
We propose a novel shape-changing interface that consists of a single line. Lines have several interesting characteristics from the persp...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Mont...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT associate professor of media arts and sciences, describes her research on social and emotional intelligence.
Our dream is a sci-fi future, where dreams are controllable. We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mi...
GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...
Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
The first use-case for programmable droplets is a kind of automated painters' palette.
Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...
AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...
Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
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...
A. Kapur, S. Kapur, and P. Maes, "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface." 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018), pp 43-53, March 5, 2018.
Sang-won Leigh, et al. "Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables." TEI 18, pp 11-18, March 3, 2018.
Tangible interactive matrix for real-time computation and 3D projection mappingThe Tactile Matrix is a system for an illuminated, machine...