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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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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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Viral Communications

Putting people and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Space Enabled

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

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Personal Robots

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

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
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Theme | Sleep & Dreams

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice, c…
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Peristaltic Suit

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle at…
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

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

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
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Cell Rover: Exploring and augmenting the inner world of the cell

MIT researchers describe an intracellular antenna that's compatible with 3D biological systems + can operate wirelessly inside a living cell
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
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Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement (AMAI) is a music generation and playback system with the goal of steering the listener toward a stat…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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New Study Highlights Opportunities for Artificial Emotional Intelligence

MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.
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Opera of the Future

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

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

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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How culture creates emotions — and how technology decodes them

On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.
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10 Ways to Spot Fake Videos and Falsehoods on the Internet

Affective Computing PhD student Matt Groh and other experts offer a few recommendations to help people recognize falsehoods online.
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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PsychicVR: Increasing mindfulness by using Virtual Reality and Brain Computer Interfaces

We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve mi…
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BubbleSynth: Soap to Sound

BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, position…
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Center for Civic Media
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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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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Smart textiles sense how their users are moving

Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
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The Guardians
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He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission

As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.
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Microgravity Hybrid Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
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Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
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Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.
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Ayah Bdeir on design, engineering and activism

Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.
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Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle
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MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

Ariel Ekblaw talks about the TESSERAE project, which was tested on the Space Station during the recent Axiom Space AX-1 mission.
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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 enscon…
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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 refle…
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Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing experie…
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.
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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 the …
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AI-generated characters are here, they’re just not evenly distributed

The Fluid Interfaces group + NTT DATA hosted Virtual Beings + Being Virtual, a workshop exploring positive uses of AI-generated characters