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Looking beyond smart cities
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
Media Lab alum talks about founding MIT’s new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Dr. Boriskina and PhD student Ikra Shuvo receive J-WAFS grant to develop energy-efficient atmospheric water harvesting technology.
Zachary Lieberman receives 2025 Digital Art Award for his pioneering creative coding and innovation in new media art.
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
Since its 2015 debut by an MIT team, expansion microscopy has advanced research on kidneys, seeds, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.
The Carolyn “Bo” Aldigé Visionary Award recognizes the MIT Media Lab's groundbreaking research in advancing women's health.
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.
With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
Hossein Rahnama, a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland explore the new rules of data privacy.
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
Gabriela Torres Vives, et al. "Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound." Bank of England and MIT Digital Currency Initiative, December 2024
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
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…
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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…