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People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words—creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe.Modern image …
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
Looking beyond smart cities
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
More details: iceberg.mit.eduFurther research: media.mit.edu/projects/ai-lpm/overviewAbstractArtificial Intelligence is reshaping Amer…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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…
With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.
Pat Pataranutaporn shares with CBS News his findings on human-AI interaction.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
MIT Media Lab alumnus Alexander Reben launches Phyzify, an AI company turning imagination into physical products.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Project Iceberg receives $250K from GitLab Foundation’s AI for Economic Opportunity Fund to identify and reskill at-risk workers.
In The Guardian, Pat Pataranutaporn warns that missing AI disclaimers in health content can lead users to trust information too easily.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Rosalind Picard, head of the Affective Computing group, is among the contributors featured in a recent episode of BBC Rethink.
📚 Full paper (open access)NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a person…
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
This research, recently presented at the AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore by Elinor Poole-Dayan, finds that leading AI models perform…
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
Contributors: Kaustubh Dhavse, Chief Advisor to CM, Maharashtra; Dr. Praveen Gedam, Divisional Commissioner, Nashik; Shekhar Singh, Commissioner of Kumbh Mela, Nashik; Dr. Ramesh Raskar, MIT and Project Nanda; Dr. Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services; Mahesh Lambe, Project NANDA; Saurabh Sakalkar, Project NANDA; Ankur Shinde, Project NANDA; Gurusha Raskar, Project NANDA
In the latest episode of Who I Met Today, Kye Shimizu discusses the bold and varied projects emerging from MIT Media Lab.
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks (sAIpien)
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency,
Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models…
Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, and Pattie Maes. "Superficial Alignment, Subtle Divergence, and Nudge Sensitivity in LLM Decision-Making." NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning.
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)
This project is no longer active, but has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 11 to 18.How to Train Yo…
The project is no longer active, and has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 5-7 and 8-10.This Primary…
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Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…
Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, and Pattie Maes. "Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests." NeurIPS Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning (LAW)
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wearable breast ultrasound device that they say can make way for earlier breast cancer detection.
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…
Andrew Sliwinski, Lego Education’s head of product experience, discusses why young kids need to learn how AI models work.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
"Key challenges remain in creating integrated systems that offer seamless interaction and rich user experiences."
MIT Media Lab has developed a prototype that uses generative AI to interpret and distil the contents of a photograph into a fragrance.
Media Lab spinoff Tulip raises $120M at a $1.3B valuation to scale its AI platform for frontline manufacturing worldwide
Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
How AI Became a Third Party in Our Relationships, According to the MIT Media Lab’s Cyborg Psychology Group.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
Poole-Dayan, Elinor, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Jan. 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17737.