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The MIT Media Lab

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Connected Mind + Body

The Media Lab is working to revolutionize and improve mental + physical wellbeing using digital technologies and human-computer interaction.

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Future Worlds

Our goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.

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Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating creativity on a broad scale requires expertise that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

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Research Group Overview: Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

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Research Group Overview: Space Enabled

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

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Research Group Overview: Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

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Research Group Overview: Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability.

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Research Group Overview: Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection.

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Research Group Overview: MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

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Research Group Overview: City Science

Looking beyond smart cities.

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Research Group Overview: Conformable Decoders

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

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Research Group Overview: Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive support

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Research Group Overview: Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium.

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Research Group Overview: Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.

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Research Group Overview: Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences.

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Research Group Overview: Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis.

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Research Group Overview: Opera of the Future

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

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Research Group Overview: Personal Robots

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

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Research Group Overview: Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

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Research Group Overview: Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering.

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Research Group Overview: Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology.

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Research Group Overview: Space Exploration Initiative

Democratizing access to space.

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Research Group Overview: Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.

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Research Group Overview: Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

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VALIS Slippers Song

"When I fell asleep that night, I had a dream."

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Fall Meeting 2022: Life with AI

Professors Pattie Maes and Andy Lippman lead a panel discussion about emerging themes in artificial intelligence research.

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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

A tool developed in collaboration with nonprofit worker groups, allowing app-based delivery workers to track and share aggregate pay data.

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Hyper-LOCAL Solutions to GLOBAL Challenges

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of cities.

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Wearable Reasoner

Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI Assistant

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Battery-free wireless underwater camera

The Signal Kinetics group invented the world's first battery-free wireless underwater camera.

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Testing Research in the Arctic for Off-Planet Exploration

A team of scientists, engineers, and designers embark on an Arctic expedition to test space technology.

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Lightweight Community-Scale Mobility

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Fall Meeting 2022: Future of Cryptocurrency

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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring

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(Dis)Appearables

(Dis)Appearables is an approach for actuated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to appear and disappear.

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Fall Meeting 2022: Decentralized Society

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CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in Being. Creative. Together.

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superpose

"superpose" explores the potential of interaction and experiential design.

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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Integrating wearable electronics into facemasks could provide valuable insight into personal and public health.

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Success on Your Own Terms with Shellye Archambeau and Ramesh Raskar

Professor Ramesh Raskar talks to Shellye Archambeau.

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Magnetic Implants for Muscle Tracking

This new technology can provide natural, reliable control of prostheses, exoskeletons, and stimulated muscles.

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DayDreamNight

Produced in collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group.

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Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

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Media Lab Perspectives: Responsible AI with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

Thursday October 28, 2021 …

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Virtual Fall 2021 Member Meeting | Day Two | Channel 1: E14 Fund

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Chris Schmandt demos "Put-That-There"

Oct. 12, 2021
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MLVoices: Sarah Beckmann

Sarah Beckmann, a communications coordinator, writes and edits content with the goal of promoting the Media Lab's unique research agenda.

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ML Focus | July 2021: New Health | Affective Computing

Tuesday July 13, 2021 …

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ML Focus | July 2021: New Health | Fluid Interfaces

Wednesday July 14, 2021 …

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Media Lab Perspectives: Space Environmentalism with Moriba Jah

Thursday June 24, 2021 …

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Media Lab Perspectives | Agency and Progress: Efficacy, Optimism, and Imagination with Martin Seligman

Thursday June 10, 2021 …

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Inflection PoinT: Showcase 21 Trailer

Tuesday — Thursday June 8, 2021 — …

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

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Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-Users through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

Thursday May 13, 2021 …

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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Thursday April 29, 2021 …

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Media Lab Perspectives: You are RIGHT! Right? with Juan Enriquez

Thursday April 15, 2021 …

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MLVoices: Alexis Hope

Watch the video, then read this post by Alexis Hope to learn more about her work at the Media Lab and her passions.

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MLVoices: Osvy Rodriguez

Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT as a Cuban refugee in the US.

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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Radical Sustainability

During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.

Oct. 30, 2020
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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Equitable Technology

This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.

Oct. 30, 2020
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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Resilience Across Scales

This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.

Oct. 30, 2020
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Biomechatronics—Stiffness Control

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Biomechatronics—Grabowski running test

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Biomechatronics—eOPRA System

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Biomechatronics—Walking Experiment

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Biomechatronics—MultiDIC and Opensource Toolbox for Multi-View 3D

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Juliana Nazaré Dissertation Defense

Thursday October 1, 2020 …

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All SDGs: Monitoring and Evaluation

Wednesday September 16, 2020 …

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MLVoices: Pat Pataranutaporn

Pat Pataranutaporn discusses his work at the Media Lab, and takes a step back to talk about adjusting to the new normal of the pandemic.

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Safe Paths update—September 3, 2020

The project is a multi-faculty, cross-MIT effort, with input and expertise from multiple institutes.

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A conversation with Jamila Raqib, Adam Foss, Kade Crockford, and Chris Bevans

Thursday August 27, 2020 …