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Looking beyond smart cities
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
Space Exploration Initiative
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...
Enhancing human physical capability
Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specif...
The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in spac...
Mor, Hila, Ken Nakagaki, et al. "Venous Materials : Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms." CHI '20, Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376129
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the fun...
Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
Living Distance is a mission and a fantasy realized, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Carried...
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
Designing for, with, and by nature
A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...
Apps developed by MIT spinout Tulip help manufacturers augment employee production rather than automating it away.
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
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
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Jin Joo Lee elaborates on her experiences studying in Shenzhen, China.
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...
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...
This is what a trade war looks like.
Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has become a unicorn.
1,000 clear plastic tiles assembled into a 10-by-12-foot circular installation with a heart-shaped cutout in the middle
Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.
Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album—Vulnicura—the Mediate...
Proceeding CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 3669-3680 Denver, Colorado, USA — May 06 - 11, 2017 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017
Head of MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter research group teamed up with Björk to create 3D-printed wearables of the singer's face
Steven J. Keating, Elizabeth Tsai, Neri Oxman. CRC Press, Jun 6, 2013