What's Taking Form?
A glimpse into experiments still unfolding. These are early explorations — unfinished, evolving, and sometimes weird — in all the best ways
MIT Media Lab + Castrol Collaborate on Space Research
This collaboration highlights Castrol’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation and pushing the boundaries of space exploration.
Research Group Overviews
Learn more about all of the research groups, centers, and initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.
ML Research Theme: Future Worlds
We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.
Advancing Wellbeing
MLVoices
MLVoices is an ongoing occasional series featuring community members talking about their ideas, their work, their passions, and their lives.
ML Focus series
Fall 2020 OoLE: Big Picture Sessions
Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.
Safe Paths
All Hands on Deck
To fully explore and understand the ocean, we need "all hands on deck."
The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#TBT
Labcast
LabCAST was the Media Lab's original video feature series. It ran from 2007–2016, highlighting dozens of research projects and initiatives.
Thesis Defenses
Sensibles Research Symposium
MLTalks
The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, whic…
E14 Dedication and Symposium
AI & Robotics Hackathon @ Bangkok 2026
About This HackathonAI & Robotics Hackathon 2026Co-Hosted by Bangkok Bank and the MIT Media Lab | Bangkok, ThailandBuilding Better Futu…
crafted from anti-bird spikes and 3D-printed scaffolds, nests reveal a posthuman architecture
MIT-LUMA Lab’s Bird+House, developed by Hiroshi Ishii, Lucy Li and Hye Jun Youn, creates 3D-printed nesting structures for barn swallows.
Automatar: Intelligent AI Guitar
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
Boulez at 100: Celebrating the Musical Legacy of Pierre Boulez with Gloria Cheng, Ralph van Raat & Tod Machover
Reimagining Boulez at 100 through performance, technology, and dialogue.
‘Coding Kids’: Natasha Singer on Big Tech’s power in public schools
Mitchel Resnick said jobs aren’t the main reason he wants kids to learn to code. Instead, he sees it as “more like learning to write.”
Jeff Freilich
Program Lead, AI Literacy
Hyeokjun Yoon of Conformable Decoders group Receives 2026 WHAM Edge Award for AI-Guided Portable 3D Breast Ultrasound
Hyeokjun Yoon, a PhD student in the Conformable Decoders group, has received a 2026 WHAM Edge Award from Women’s Health Access Matters (WHA…
Born in the Same Lab, Now in the Same Business: E Ink Invests in Soofa
E Ink invests in MIT spinoff Soofa to power outdoor smart displays. Learn how solar digital signage transforms cities!
Electrospun Architecture
Benjamin Lowengard
Ari Aadler
Dava Newman
Former Director, MIT Media Lab; Apollo Professor of Astronautics
Geva Patz
Casey Smith
Former Research Assistant, Lifelong Kindergarten
John A. Watlington
Former Research Specialist
Mario Bourgoin
Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning
Marina Bers
Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning
Kelly Heaton
Former Research Assistant, Program in Media Arts & Sciences
David Chiou
Former Research Assistant, Sociable Media
Hannes Vilhjalmsson
Erik Mueller
Chenyue (Xdd) Dai
Graduate Student (ARCH)
Marisa Uribe
Former Administrative Assistant SA+P
Matt Mankins
Suwan Kim
Graduate Student (ARCH)
Tom Stocky
Berfin Ataman
Outside RA
Håkon Wium Lie
Former Research Assistant, Electronic Publishing
David Young
Former Research Assistant, Visible Language Workshop
Alan Wexelblat
Former Research Assistant, Intelligent Agents
Clea Waite
Former Research Assistant, 3D Computer Graphics and Animation
Fernanda B. Viegas
Former Research Assistant, Sociable Media
Nuno Vasconcelos
Former Research Assistant, Movies of the Future
Alan Turransky
Former Research Assistant, Visible Language Workshop
Dave Tames
Former Research Assistant, Interactive Cinema
Steve Strassmann
Former Research Assistant, Program in Media Arts & Sciences
Karl Sims
Former Research Assistant, Animation Research
Warren Sack
Former Research Assistant, Machine Understanding