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MIT researchers develop electrically driven artificial muscle fiber for soft robotics and prosthetics: compact, powerful, efficient systems
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
Looking beyond smart cities
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…
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
O. K. Afsar et al., "Electrofluidic fiber muscles." Sci. Robot. 11, eady6438 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438
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.
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
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
The project is no longer active, and has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 5-7 and 8-10.This Primary…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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 …
Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
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
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
J. Gentinetta, M. F. Fernandez, J. Qiao, M. R. Gonzalez and H. M. Herr, "Biophysical Models With Adaptive Online Learning for Direct Neural Control of Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, pp. 3201-3211, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3599114.
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Enhancing human physical capability
Nicita, S., Weaver, J.C., Ishii, H. et al. A framework for handweaving robotic textiles with liquid crystal elastomer fibers. Sci Rep 15, 16883 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97835-1
Liquid crystal elastomer fibers incorporated into different weave designs create programmable and reversible structures.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Laura Dodds and Fangzheng Liu were recognized among the finalists at the MIT–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Day, earning first and thi
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Christopher Shallal has been selected as one of the inaugural Graduate Fellows in the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative.
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
Professor Hugh Herr is among the top Forbes 100 innovators advancing accessibility.
IM-2’s sideways lunar landing didn’t stop Media Lab researchers and collaborators from gaining insights from their onboard experiments.
At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…