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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 …
This study explores the feasibility of using smile and smirk expression dynamics, captured through our novel stimulus-based mobile aff…
The Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program at the MIT Media Lab explores research on AI and human psychology. We explore how …
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
VoiceTraceCommunity voices you can check.Every year, cities, school districts, and government agencies ask communities for input. Residents…
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…
New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…
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…
Coin selection refers to the problem of choosing a set of tokens to fund a transaction in token-based payment systems such as, e.g., crypto…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
As AI systems increasingly take on instructional roles — providing feedback, guiding practice, evaluating work — a fundamental question eme…
As AI increasingly enters the classroom, what changes when students collaborate with algorithms instead of peers? We analyzed 36 under…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
More details: iceberg.mit.eduFurther research: media.mit.edu/projects/ai-lpm/overviewAbstractArtificial Intelligence is reshaping Amer…
Shared autonomous bicycles could transform how we move through cities, but their impact depends on how they are designed and integrated. Th…
In 2025, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts convened the Special Commission on Micromobility to examine the rapid emergence of lightweight m…
The Global Observatory monitors worldwide impact of AI adoption across cultures, tracking both positive and negative outcomes such as over-…
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their capacity to both enhance and undermine human flourishing demands rigoro…
Cities of Memory Art, AI, and community in evolving public space
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
The people who help you most don't just respond to what you say. They understand how you think.They know when you're likely to rush a decis…
What does it mean to give artificial intelligence a body? Not a body in the fleshy sense, or even a humanoid shell, but a form through whic…
Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
DNA Canvas is a new platform for assembling nanoscale components using DNA as a programmable interface. By bridging top-down nanofabricatio…
Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for understanding and creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces t…
Andorra Clone is a country-scale digital twin and scenario exploration platform being developed to help Andorra better understand and plan …
MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…
This work examines women’s everyday mobility and experiences of insecurity in an informal neighborhood, comparing how different research me…
How prepared are our digital infrastructures—and our cities—for the transition to a quantum-secure world?Cities are complex social ecosyste…
In collaboration with Lighthouse Disruptive Innovation Group (LDIG), this work explores the application of quantum algorithms to spatial di…
Read the paper here.According to a report from Menlo Ventures there were about 1.7-1.8 billion people who used large language model (LLM)-b…
Archiving 7 years of web experiments and making a platform for new ones.
This study introduces PixBric, a pixel-based textile methodology composed of primitive geometries designed to induce controlled morphing be…
PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics ThroughTessellated Primitive Geometries3D printing onto pre-stretched fab…
The act of cracking knuckles often stems from psychological tension, nervous focus, or the satisfaction of release. Crackers explores how t…
Realistic simulation of red-braised pork has always been an important challenge in the history of computer science. The bouncy, succulent, …
3D Illusion experiments from autostereograms to lenticular displays.
FaceTerm is an interactive installation that turns you into ASCII art.
Research on non-linear and linear least squares for matching doodles.
Our mission is to expand horizons, foster creativity, and explore a myriad of concepts. Gastronomy and Beyond is a collaboration betwe…
Integrating quantum computing into urban design opens a new paradigm for city planning and modeling. Through the collaboration with Lightho…
📚 Full paper (open access)NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a person…
Recent advances in visual decoding have demonstrated the feasibility of classifying and reconstructing perceived images from evoked brain …
In collaboration with Lighthouse Disruptive Innovation Group (LDIG), we introduce Quantum Mechanics for Proteins (QMProt), a dataset d…
In collaboration with Lighthouse Disruptive Innovation Group (LDIG), we present a scalable and resource-aware framework for the quantum sim…
Festivals of Invention and Creativity (FICs) are local celebrations to share and actively engage in creative learning experiences. FIC…
Cities exist to concentrate access to opportunities. A systematic approach to assessing how each person experiences this access is a p…
Welcome to ViKi : Visual KinematicsThe mobile phone in your pocket as a universal input device for communication between the movement…
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…
Bitcoin miners compete to earn a block reward by applying hashrate to solve a puzzle set by the code. Equilibrium hashrate is a function of…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
BackgroundCurrent AI benchmarking methodologies focus predominantly on static performance metrics (accuracy, task completion) while failin…
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
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)
