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Project Research

Microgravity Hybrid Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Sean Auffinger +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

Cynthia Breazeal "Social Robots"

Personal Robots group head Cynthia Breazeal speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

via Soft Robotics podcast · June 20, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #artificial intelligence #social robotics
Research
Space Enabled

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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Digital Construction Platform

The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an experimental enabling technology for large-scale digital manufacturing. In contrast to the ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Julian Leland +2 more
#robotics #architecture #construction
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Kino

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...

in Living Mobile
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Deborah Ajilo +2 more
#robotics #design #fashion +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Circuit Robots: Mass manufacturing of self-actuating robots

Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...

in Responsive Environments · Tangible Media
Artem Dementyev · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +65 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deepe...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...

in City Science
Inigo Martinez Lopez · Naroa Coretti Sánchez +1 more
#robotics #data #energy +5 more
Article Research

Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.

via MIT News · June 1, 2022
in RAISE
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Project Research

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Thesis Research

A Virtual Muscle Model of the Arm for EMG-Driven Control of Prostheses

Thesis, May 2022
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #design
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...

in Personal Robots
Ravi Tejwani · Sooyeon Jeong +2 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #machine learning +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

in Affective Computing · ML Learning
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
Archived
Article Research

3 Questions: Ariel Ekblaw on building beautiful architecture in space

The TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes to the International Space Station.

via MIT News · May 11, 2022
in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #design #architecture +2 more
Project Research

(Dis)Appearables

by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Uni...

in Tangible Media
Ken Nakagaki · Joanne Leong +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis

#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

#robotics #design #architecture +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle

#robotics #design #architecture +10 more
Research
Signal Kinetics

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

#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sands Fish · Che-Wei Wang +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Post Research

Fadel Adib wins ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award

He was recognized for his innovative contributions to wireless sensing and for networking advances in challenging environments.

April 4, 2022
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #networks #sensors
Project Research

Patchbots: Milli-fluidic Soft Robots Towards On-body Locomoting Swarm UIs

Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrate...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
Project Research

What can we learn from predicting shadows?

By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract....

in Camera Culture
Kushagra Tiwary · Tzofi Klinghoffer +1 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What typ...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Huili Chen +3 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +1 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT Chalk Radio: AI Literacy for All with Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all

via Chalk Radio podcast from MIT OpenCourseWare · March 30, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #artificial intelligence #learning +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Bounce-Flash Lidar

In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers...

in Camera Culture
Connor Henley
#robotics #computer vision #augmented reality +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...

in Personal Robots
Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang · Sharifa Alghowinem +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Breathing Garment: A respiratory regulation garment for voice pedagogy

Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
Project Research

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever bef...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Fiducial Marker-Based Navigation for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object d...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +1 more
Project Research

Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces ...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Project Research

Argus: Water monitoring through nanosensors inside living plants

Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen
#robotics #design #environment +3 more
Article Research

What Biodesign Means to Me

Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.

via Biodesigned · Feb. 28, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#robotics #design #environment +3 more
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space

Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.

via MIT News · Feb. 23, 2022
in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #space +2 more
Post Research

Augmented | Nova PBS episode featuring Hugh Herr

"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.

Feb. 23, 2022
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #bioengineering #human-machine interaction +10 more
Project Research

Robot Policy Design Toolkit

Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspac...

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Anastasia Ostrowski +1 more
#robotics #politics #social robotics
Project Research

Peristaltic Suit

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Ali Shtarbanov +1 more
#robotics #data #wearable computing +6 more
Post Research

Emma Chory wins 2022 SLAS Innovation Award

The SLAS Innovation Award is a $10,000 cash prize recognizing the work behind one exceptional podium presentation.

Feb. 15, 2022
in Sculpting Evolution
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combina...

in Sculpting Evolution
Brian Wang · Erika Alden DeBenedictis +3 more
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
Research
RAISE

RAISE

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +10 more
Article Research

A guide to cyberarts: From bots to glitch, an annotated glossary for an age of augmented reality

Check out this list of cyberart projects compiled by The Boston Globe, which includes work by alum Alexander Reben and Prof. Ekene Ijeoma.

via The Boston Globe · Jan. 27, 2022
in Responsive Environments · Poetic Justice
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +4 more
Article Research

Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.

via TechCrunch · Jan. 18, 2022
in Personal Robots
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.

via MIT News · Jan. 14, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Gramophone reviews Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

via Gramophone · Jan. 3, 2022
in Opera of the Future
#robotics #music #technology
Article Research

Speeding up directed evolution of molecules in the lab

Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins.

via MIT News · Dec. 30, 2021
in Sculpting Evolution
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
Article Research

Making her way through MIT

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.

via MIT News · Dec. 7, 2021
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #bioengineering #learning +6 more
Publication Research

Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes

Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.

Proceedings, May 2021
in Tangible Media
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +1 more
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Article Research

The next generation of home robots will be more capable — and perhaps more social

Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.

via The Washington Post · Nov. 10, 2021
in Personal Robots
#robotics #social robotics #community +1 more
Publication Research

Magnetomicrometry

C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656

Academic Paper, Aug. 2021
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +8 more
Article Research

Robotic Textiles in Action: OmniFiber

AZoM talks to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, a visiting doctoral student in the Tangible Media group, about her work on the OmniFiber project.

via AZoM · Nov. 2, 2021
in Tangible Media
#robotics #design #health +3 more
Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop str...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +5 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
Article Research

At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

via MIT News · Oct. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
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