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Space Enabled

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

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time

A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
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From NASA to MIT to Formlabs

MIT alum Audrey Chen talks to MIT News about her career, including joining Media Lab spinoff Formlabs as a project manager.
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3D printers just got a big, eco-friendly upgrade (in the lab)

Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.
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This 3D printer can figure out how to print with an unknown material

This research could make it easier to print with renewable or recyclable materials.
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DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
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Fab Labs

"Fab Lab" is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory, a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrap…
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How MIT's fab labs scaled around the world

Professor Neil Gershenfeld tells MIT News that fab labs are now transitioning from providing access to tools to making the tools themselves.
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design acro…
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Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches of…
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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level. …
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MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

Spinoff OPT Industries is scaling up production of novel metamaterials, such as swabs for Covid-19 testing.
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Computational Biomechanics

This research track focuses on the use of computational (and experimental) techniques to understand the biomechanical behavior of human tis…
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Hybrid Living Materials

Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the funct…
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Making Data Matter: Voxel-printing for the digital fabrication of data across scales and domains

We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific imagi…
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Water-Based Additive Manufacturing

This research presents water-based robotic fabrication as a design approach and enabling technology for additive manufacturing (AM) of biod…
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DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). U…
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Vespers II

Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical pro…
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Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary st…
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3D Printed Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs by OPT Industries, Inc. in response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc.,…
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A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
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Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.
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Implosion Fabrication

Shrinking problems in 3D printing Although a range of materials can now be fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques, these u…
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Speculative machines produce existential wonder

A collaboration between CAST visiting artist Thom Kubli, Hiroshi Ishii, and members of the Tangible Media group.
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MIT’s visiting artist envisions floating, 3D-printed sculptures lighter than air

Thom Kubli, in collaboration with the Tangible Media group, on the development of a machine that can 3D print objects light enough to float.
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Orbiting, the new floating installation on the history of humanity

Artists and scientists from MIT united to create "Orbiting," an aerial archive of objects that trace the history of humanity.
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WraPr: Spool-Based Fabrication for Object Creation and Modification

In this work, we propose a novel fabrication method for 3D objects based on the principle of spooling. By wrapping off-the-shelf materials …
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EmotiveModeler: An emotive form design CAD tool

Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their fo…
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WraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects

Known as “WraPr,” the system presents a novel fabrication method for creating new or augmenting existing 3D objects with soft materials.
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WraPr, a spool-based 3D fabricator

I thought I’d seen plenty of fab stuff done with filaments, but obviously I hadn’t seen it all. That’s pretty groovy.
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This crazy sculpture is made by an MIT-engineered machine that 3D prints biopolymers to replace plastic

Aguahoja—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—rethinks the paradigm of recycling.
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Hybrid Living Materials

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
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Stanford increasing access to 3D modeling through touch-based display

Researchers in alum Sean Follmer’s lab at Stanford are developing a touch-based display to make computer-aided design tools more accessible.
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Future Fur: A collaboration in fashion, design, and technology

Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur
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Cilllia: 3D-printed micro pillar structures for surface texture, actuation, and sensing

In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well-k…
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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.
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Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
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Neri Oxman has all the answers

Mediated Matter head Neri Oxman talks to ELLE about her work.
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Decay by design: These 3D-printed organic plastics naturally decompose

A group at MIT created polymers derived from organic matter, printed by a robot, and shaped by water.
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Aguahoja—Programmable water-based biocomposites for digital design and fabrication

How the Mediated Matter group’s Aguahoja project transforms some of the most abundant materials on the planet into structural art.
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Changing how we build satellites could do more than reduce space junk

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of defunct satellites that can be hazardous to working spacecraft—but it doesn't have to be that way.
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The gorgeous future of 3D printing

Until now, we couldn’t print certain types of data models in 3D.
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Meet the latest unicorn: Formlabs, a 3D printing startup founded by three young MIT grads

Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has become a unicorn.
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Somerville startup at the heart of Times Square attraction

1,000 clear plastic tiles assembled into a 10-by-12-foot circular installation with a heart-shaped cutout in the middle
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Neri Oxman and MIT develop digitally produced water-based renewable material

Neri Oxman and a group of researchers from the MIT Mediated Matter group have developed a water-based digital fabrication platform.
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Creativity and collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity

Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, set out to underline the close connections between art and technology.
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You'll soon be able to get a 3D printed model of your brain

Oh this? It's just my brain.
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These stunning 3D models are transforming scientists’ raw data

A method of 3D printing that lets scientists produce stunning, high-definition 3D copies of their data.
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Neri Oxman 3D prints glass at an architectural scale

Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.
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Inside YET: the luminous Lexus pavilion at Milan Design Week 2017

Neri Oxman, architect, designer and professor at MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with her team, The Mediated Matter G…
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Neri Oxman's Lazarus death masks visualise the wearer's last breath
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Vespers, the Latest Mask Collection by MIT's Neri Oxman

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