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Looking beyond smart cities
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
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…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a cohor…
Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the followi…
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
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
The contributions spotlighted aim to get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.
Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within our CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
In EdSurge, Media Lab alum Elliott Hedman and other experts call on edtech companies to pay more attention to their end users—children
In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
MaKey MaKey lets you transform everyday objects into computer interfaces. Make a game pad out of Play-Doh, a musical instrument out of bana…
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.
Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.
This event congregated a community of educators around the world to celebrate and share class content using the Day of AI curriculum.
Scratch Mondays is an initiative to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018 i…
Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…
Spinoff Learning Beautiful develops education materials that encourage kids to explore computer science concepts through physical learning.
The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.
Korbin Deary talks about his involvement with Scratch, a programming platform created by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the Lab
Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.
Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …
Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on the …
The Duct Tape Network (DTN) is a series of fun, hands-on maker clubs that encourage young children (ages 7-10) to use cardboard, tape, wood…