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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Long Range Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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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…
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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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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…
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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…
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Generating Physically-Consistent Satellite Imagery for Climate Visualizations

B. Lütjens et al., "Generating Physically-Consistent Satellite Imagery for Climate Visualizations," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-11, 2024, Art no. 4213311, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3493763.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Zero-Power Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
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From NASA to MIT to Formlabs

MIT alum Audrey Chen talks to MIT News about her career, including joining Media Lab spinoff Formlabs as a project manager.
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Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage

They demonstrate the design in a paper published in PNAS Nexus.
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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 …
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Curiosity Unbounded Episode 4: Build your own superpower, then share it with the world

On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
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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,…
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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…
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Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
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Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change
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FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
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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
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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.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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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…
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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…
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LEGO Wayfinder

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

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

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
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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.
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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.
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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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
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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…
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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…
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Training to Voyage

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

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

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

Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projection …
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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
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

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

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

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

Descending into the dark sea is like exploring deep space.
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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.
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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.
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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.…