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Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
The MIT Space Exploration Initiative explores Lunar analog sites on Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote.During a 10-day field program in Feb…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Tsung-Han Lin, Connor Henley, Siddharth Somasundaram, Akshat Dave, Moshe Laifenfeld, and Ramesh Raskar. Handheld mapping of specular surfaces using consumer-grade flash lidar. In IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2024.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
The IM-2 Moon Mission will carry three projects from the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative and collaborators.
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Looking beyond smart cities
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
In a special edition of Government Technology magazine focused on AI, executive editor Noelle Knell highlights the work of Cynthia Breazeal.
T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Framework aiming at Future Human Diaspora
Enhancing human physical capability
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
Research OverviewAs artificial intelligence (AI) devices become more common in our homes, concerns about their potential harm to human-huma…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
The Design
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
On the Aging Equal Podcast, Dr. Anastasia Ostrowski talks about co-designing social robots and her work collaborating with older adults.
Beyond the Cradle
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Their paper won the award in the Theory + Methods category.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Ritual I: The Thing Itself consists of a choreographed robotic body that is in constant flux. It performs a dance of repetitive patter…
Shu, T., Herrera-Arcos, G., Taylor, C.R. et al. Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration. Nat Rev Bioeng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00151-y
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and captu…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Using 3D imaging combined with ambient noise tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Designing for, with, and by nature