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
Membership at the MIT Media Lab
Join MIT Media Lab’s membership program to access cutting-edge research, talent, and innovation shaping tomorrow’s technologies.
Hyung Woon Lee
Graduate Student
The new robot in school
Meet Tega—one of the newest creations from the Personal Robots Group (PRG), led at the MIT Media Lab by associate professor of Me…
UC Berkeley researchers create platform to measure AI health impacts in collaboration with MIT, USC
ImpactBench, launched Oct. 7, gives a broad overview of how an AI model scores on different metrics.
Viral Communications
We develop AI for learning, exploration, and speculation that we call “technologies of curiosity.” They are interfaces and systems intended…
AI Can Rewrite Your Memories, and You May Never Notice
Studies from the MIT Media Lab and Georgetown University show AI chatbots and summaries implant false memories in users.
EVDT Community Meeting - October 2026
We invite you to join the October meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of …
Ozgun Kilic Afsar Dissertation Defense
Millimeter-Scale Electrofluidic Actuators for Soft Mechatronic Systems
Li-chun Lu
Does using AI help us learn or just get quick answers?
New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…
2026 FYRE: Fueling Young Revolutionary Engineers
2026 FYRE: Fueling Young Revolutionary EngineersIn collaboration with MIT's Chocolate City living group and The Program in Media Arts &…
What's Taking Form (WTF)
What’s Taking FormIdeas before they behave.A glimpse into experiments still unfolding. These are early explorations — unfinished, evolving,…
Quincy Kuang
Graduate Student
Maria Licka
2025 FYRE: Fueling Young Revolutionary Engineers
FYRE : Fueling Young Revolutionary EngineersIn partnership with the Lifelong Kindergarten group and The Program in Medi…
Form Forge
Form Forge is a creative system for exploring the latent space of architectural sketches by François Blanciak's in his book SITELESS: 1001 …
Holonews
News reporting today suffers from sensationalism. News agencies are constantly fighting for attention and clicks, leading to headline…
What's America Listening To?
Wall of Now
Wall of Now is a multi-dimensional media browser of recent news items. It attempts to address our need to know everything by presenting a d…
Broadercasting
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
SuperGlue
SuperGlue is a core news research initiative that is a "digestion system" and metadata generator for mass media. An evolving set of analysi…
FiftyNifty
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…
RelatiVotey
Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. Ho…
VR Codes
VR Codes are dynamic data invisibly hidden in television and graphic displays. They allow the display to present simultaneously visual inf…
Vote Purple '20
With Vote Purple '20, we are continuing our work of presenting a cognitive middle ground in media consumption - with a targeted focus on th…
Liquid News
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
Liquid Learning
Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
Wildfire Whisperer
Dealing with rapidly spreading wildfires is a complex task that involves the coordination of multiple government agencies and on-site crews…
DbDb
DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …
Unspoken News
How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of v…
AI & Robotics Hackathon @ Bangkok 2026
About This HackathonAI & Robotics Hackathon 2026Co-Hosted by Bangkok Bank and the MIT Media Lab | Bangkok, ThailandBuilding Better Futu…