Work for a Member organization and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your official email address.
artificial intelligence
art
health
design
robotics
technology
human-machine interaction
learning + teaching
human-computer interaction
architecture
music
consumer electronics
wearable computing
kids
data
bioengineering
sensors
environment
machine learning
politics
space
cognition
wellbeing
networks
entertainment
social science
alumni
economy
computer science
creativity
history
storytelling
interfaces
covid19
community
civic technology
prosthetics
ethics
engineering
communications
computer vision
developing countries
biology
privacy
imaging
virtual reality
augmented reality
social robotics
neurobiology
public health
social media
social networks
urban planning
biotechnology
industry
climate change
synthetic biology
women
medicine
data visualization
food
energy
affective computing
biomechanics
transportation
cognitive science
sustainability
fabrication
materials
behavioral science
government
social change
data science
banking and finance
mental health
ocean
startup
blockchain
healthcare
genetics
human augmentation
zero gravity
manufacturing
cryptocurrency
agriculture
ecology
prosthetic design
electrical engineering
womens health
gaming
diversity
racial justice
fashion
3d printing
neural interfacing and control
bionics
microfabrication
sleep
civic action
security
mechanical engineering
construction
performance
natural language processing
autonomous vehicles
member company
language learning
visualization
open source
nanoscience
cities
social justice
systems
interactive
internet of things
marginalized communities
microbiology
water
perception
collective intelligence
textiles
code
chemistry
wireless
mapping
digital currency
clinical science
physics
physiology
soft-tissue biomechanics
biomedical imaging
algorithms
nonverbal behavior
voice
gender studies
culture
assistive technology
trust
sports and fitness
law
long-term interaction
rfid
hacking
networking
orthotic design
mechatronics
pharmaceuticals
cells
autism research
open access
business
real estate
science
internet
news
exhibit
decision-making
misinformation
journalism
supply chains
asl
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics ThroughTessellated Primitive Geometries3D printing onto pre-stretched fab…
MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
I usually work with code that creates images, which I means I can easily explore the system using more code. Here, I wanted to see what I c…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
Agora is a training ground to help people practice building consensus by drafting and revising policies based on feedback from a population…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
This study introduces PixBric, a pixel-based textile methodology composed of primitive geometries designed to induce controlled morphing be…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
Our project develops adaptive intervention systems for social media platforms where younger generations now spend an average of more than 2…
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
While legacy sketchnotes capture rich design rationales and inspirations, they are rarely reused in contemporary practice. We present Co-Id…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
ARS ELECTRONICA 2021Garden CAMBRIDGE
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…
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …