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Looking beyond smart cities
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Enhancing human physical capability
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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
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
Powered ankle prostheses have been proven to improve the walking economy of transtibial amputees although these powered systems are usually…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
They demonstrate the design in a paper published in PNAS Nexus.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
"Fab Lab" is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory, a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrap…
Professor Neil Gershenfeld tells MIT News that fab labs are now transitioning from providing access to tools to making the tools themselves.
Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
PhD students Lucy Du and Ginger Schmidt are crushing the competition — and gender barriers — in the world of televised robot combat.
Lower extremity amputation leads to limitations of biological function of individuals, which leads to challenges remaining physically activ…
Lab alum David Moinina Sengeh and others speak on TED Radio Hour about friction in its many uses and forms.
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for early …
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
Fernandez, S. V., Cai, F., Chen, S., Suh, E., Tiepelt, J., McIntosh, R., Marcus, C., Acosta, D., Mejorado, D., Dagdeviren, C.†, “On-Body Energy Harvesters Through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00800, 2021. [Invited Review Paper for Special Issue].
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Leverag…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2017). DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
We present an interactive shape-changing display—Dancing Membrane of the reSpire- using the deformation of fabric and airflow control…
Carney, Matthew E. “Design and Evaluation of a Reaction-Force Series Elastic Actuator Configurable as Biomimetic Powered Ankle and Knee Prostheses By.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…