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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Battery-free wireless underwater camera featured as a research highlight in Nature Electronics

The Signal Kinetics lab's underwater camera project was chosen as a research highlight in the current issue of Nature Electronics

Oct. 26, 2022
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #ecology #energy +6 more
Research
Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +24 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…

in Signal Kinetics
Sayed Afzal · Waleed Akbar +5 more
#robotics #ecology #energy +10 more
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …

in Signal Kinetics
Ahmed Allam · Jack Rademacher +6 more
#data #energy #environment +3 more
Article Research

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.

via MIT News · Sept. 26, 2022
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #sensors #imaging +5 more
Archived
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
Archived
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break tha…

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Neil Gaikwad
#data #environment #machine learning +3 more
Archived
Article Research

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.

via MIT News · April 7, 2022
in Space Enabled
#data #environment #space +4 more
Article Research

Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take

via MIT News · April 5, 2022
in Signal Kinetics · Space Enabled
#data #environment #ocean +2 more
Post Research

Signal Kinetics team wins Explorer Prize in Ocean Observing Prize's DISCOVER Competition

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.

April 3, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#data #energy #environment +3 more
Project Research

Meet the Ganimals

New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …

in Human Dynamics · Open Ocean · Responsive Environments +1 more
Ziv Epstein · Abhimanyu Dubey +2 more
#artificial intelligence #environment #ocean
Article Research

Saving seaweed with machine learning

Charlene Xia is a Media Lab alum now pursuing a PhD in MIT Mechanical Engineering, combining her passions for food and sustainability.

via MIT News · Oct. 22, 2021
in Responsive Environments
#artificial intelligence #environment #food +5 more
Project Research

Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative · Open Ocean
Devora Najjar
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Archived
Project Research

Project Prometheus

Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges—from Maya cenotes to urban aquif…

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell
#imaging #mapping #visualization +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for buddin…

in ML Learning · Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Jennifer Chow +4 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

My Deep Sea, My Backyard

Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Alexis Hope +1 more
#developing countries #environment #history +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Maka Niu ~ a low-cost oceanographic camera and sensor platform

"Maka" - Eye, "Niu" - CoconutMaka Niu, aka the "CocoCam,"  is a low-cost oceanographic camera and sensor platform that enables th…

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Daniel Novy
#ocean
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Large Interactive Laser Light-Field Installation ~ LILLI

LILLI is an immersive, volumetric, reflective lightfield display using a hybrid of video and laser projection to visualize marine wildlife …

in Object-Based Media · Open Ocean
Tyler Schoeppner · Daniel Novy +1 more
#holography #interfaces #ocean +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Tracking Marine Snow

Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), which refers to the transport of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the ocean’s surface to the bottom, dir…

in Responsive Environments · Open Ocean
Junsu Jang
#environment #sensors #engineering +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as rā…

in Open Ocean · Responsive Environments
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
Article Research

Eight from MIT named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows

Awards honor young professors in the Media Lab and departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, EECS, + Math

via MIT News · Feb. 19, 2021
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #health +5 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Sayed Afzal +4 more
#communications #data #energy +9 more
Article Research

Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.

via National Geographic · Nov. 5, 2020
in Open Ocean
#environment #ocean #water +2 more
Article Research

An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.

via MIT News · Nov. 2, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #sensors +4 more
Project Research

Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Sayed Afzal +2 more
#communications #data #energy +6 more
Article Research

How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise

via The Economist · Oct. 17, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#communications #data #energy +6 more
Article Research

National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards two grants to MIT

MIT received two Convergence Accelerator grants from the NSF—one of which is for the Smart Oceans 2020 conference co-hosted by the Media Lab

via MIT News · Sept. 23, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#environment #social science #technology +2 more
Project Research

Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and th…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Reza Ghaffarivardavagh +1 more
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Archived
Project Research

TransparenSea: AI for Sustainable Fishing

TransparenSea is an AI system that uses video from tuna longline vessels as input to identify dangerous fishing practices while at sea.Comm…

in Responsive Environments · Open Ocean
Oceane Boulais
#environment #sensors #ocean
Archived
Post Research

Training to Voyage

In February 2020, four members of Open Ocean were invited to travel to Hawai'i to undergo training...

May 6, 2020
in Open Ocean
#ocean
Project Research

Soundscape Resynthesis

Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …

in Responsive Environments
Spencer Russell
#robotics #design #environment +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and create…

in Open Ocean · Object-Based Media
Caroline Rozendo
#art #augmented reality #environment +3 more
Archived
Article Research

Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.

via EE Times · Feb. 4, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#communications #networks #sensors +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Connected Coral

Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projection …

in Object-Based Media · Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Emily Salvador +1 more
#art #augmented reality #interfaces +1 more
Archived
Article Research

MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration

An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets

via Dezeen · Aug. 30, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#sensors #computer science #space +3 more
Article Research

A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.

via MIT News · Aug. 20, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#sensors #computer science #space +3 more
Article Research

Inside Otherlab's world of flying inventions and elastic machines

At Otherlab, inventors build cutting-edge tech from exoskeletons and flexible undersea robots to clean energy devices.

via PCMag · June 14, 2019
in Molecular Machines
#technology #engineering #ocean
Archived
Project Research

Wheels of Poseidon

Throughout the ages bioluminescence has inspired myths. Long ago, sailors in the Indian Ocean encountered massive bioluminescent blooms as …

in Open Ocean
Daniel Novy · Rachel Smith +1 more
#art #holography #ocean
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …

in Sculpting Evolution · Open Ocean
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning #storytelling +4 more
Archived
Project Research

TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…

in Signal Kinetics
Yunfei Ma · Fadel Adib +1 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Gallery Research

Micronauts Interactive Exhibit

Besides the interactive projection, the exhibit at the 'All Hands on Deck' event displayed microscopic imagery and artwork inspired by satel

by Caroline Rozendo · April 1, 2019
in Object-Based Media
#human-computer interaction #ocean
Project Research

In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…

in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #health +5 more
Article Research

Uncharted worlds

Descending into the dark sea is like exploring deep space.

via Mashable · Jan. 18, 2019
in Open Ocean
#environment #space #biology +1 more
Post Research

Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Article Research

My Deep Sea, My Backyard: Empowering nations to study the deep

The deep sea is the common heritage of all of humankind and we must all share in the responsibility to be good stewards of it.

via Forbes · Nov. 21, 2018
in Open Ocean
#environment #history #wellbeing +1 more
Post Research

Inspiration, Education, and Exploration at the Open Ocean Symposium

The New England Aquarium was proud to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab and National Geographic on the latest Open Ocean initiative event.…

Feb. 28, 2018
in Open Ocean
#ocean
Post Research

Here be Dragons 2018: Lightning Talks

MIT students, faculty, and collaborators gave Lightning Talks during Here be Dragons 2018

Feb. 21, 2018
in Open Ocean
#ocean
Post Research

Opening our ocean

A new Media Lab initiative seeks to connect humanity with ocean exploration

Feb. 21, 2018
in Open Ocean
#ocean

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