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Xin Liu, Hongxin Zhang
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
This NSF-funded project develops wireless networking systems for deep-tissue micro-implants. The micro-implants may be swallowed or injecte…
Precise neurostimulation can revolutionize therapies for neurological disorders. Electrode-based stimulation devices face challenges in ach…
Closed-loop neuroprostheses show promise in restoring motion in individuals with neurological conditions. However, conventional activation …
For those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the ability to understand, name, or recognize the sensations signifying different emotional …
EmbER (Embodied Experience Remotely) explores the use of wearable sensory devices, communicating nonverbal signals, as an additional commun…
We present Large Language Model for Mixed Reality (LLMR), a framework for the real-time creation and modification of interactive Mixed Real…
Specifically crafted sensory stimulation can influence brain function and potentially improve cognition. In this project, we developed soft…
Enhancing Apple Vision Pro headset with brain sensing capabilities via non-invasive brain sensing (Electroencephalography - EEG)…
MeMicWearables that record audio all the time pose privacy concerns. We want to allow the myriad use cases these wearables allow without th…
Very few research works featuring AR and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems considered integrating cognitive state of the user in their…
Communication skills are critical for all. We design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, fostering more emp…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
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This research explores how acoustic environments can elicit awe and wonder emotions, and how such experiences can contribute to restoration…
Technology for Women’s Health
Novel Bioelectronic Therapy for Incurable Cancer
Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
🥵 Reconstruction of perceived images from the brain is currently a hot topic in brain imaging space. 💸💸💸 However, previous approaches have …
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…
A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…
Liquid handling robots are key components of modern biotechnology labs, but they largely function to spare humans from laborious or re…
FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …
In collaboration with the Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital, and MIT Lincoln Lab, the aim is to study, characterize a…
As we work to improve prosthetic care in the US and in countries around the world, we are committed to learning from our most valuable asse…
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
The quality of the air we inhale affects our physical well-being, our mental performance, and our emotional state. Yet, most of us are unaw…
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
How are our phones and email devices altering our ability to engage deeply in our daily tasks? How important is it to spend time deep…
Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis. We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m…
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Social deduction or deception games are games in which a player or team of players actively deceives other players who are trying to discov…
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
Dive is a project to explore and induce lucid dreams using mobile devices.Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you're …
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
SleepStim is a framework for automatically recording sleep physiology and presenting sensory stimuli in sleep, using consumer smartph…
According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
Electrical stimulation has long been used in medicine to induce phosphenes, or visual sensations, in patients with visual impairments. Rece…
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
With the expansion of intelligent and ubiquitous computers everywhere, we have in many ways become cognitive cyborgs: most of us are insepa…
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
When people listen to stories, the words are colored with emotions conveyed through prosodic features beyond the text alone. Visual font d…
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
InExChange is comprised of a series of research studies and mixed-reality experienced designed to explore the impacts of shared physical se…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
Society is experiencing a growing challenge of mental health and wellbeing. This year, 32.3% of U.S. adults or over 100 million individuals…
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
NeuraLiminal: Choose Your Reality NeuraLiminal is an immersive art exhibition that celebrates the union between human and machine, sh…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
