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The IM-2 Moon mission will carry a blend of science and art

The IM-2 Moon Mission will carry three projects from the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative and collaborators.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
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Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
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PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
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Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view

This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Convergence: Artistic Explorations from Nature to Society Exhibition at NARLabs

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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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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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
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This ultrasound bra could detect cancer sooner

Inspired by her aunt’s battle with cancer, Canan Dağdeviren developed a wearable ultrasound monitor that can screen women between checkups.
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Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization

Wicaksono, I., Maheshwari, A., Haddad, D.D., Paradiso, J., and Danielescu, A., 2024. Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization. In Proc. ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 8, 2, Article 45 (June 2024), 31 pages.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Whispers Of The Mountain

Whispers Of The Mountain is a  sensor system mounted on snow skis.  The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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Pioneering Remote Sleep Research: A Comparative Study of Sleep Stage Parameters in Diverse Datasets for Enhanced Interventions.

Bernal, Guillermo, Malika Chhibber, Mradul Bhatnagar, Urvil Jivani, Nelson Hidalgo, Anthony Levasseur, and Pattie Maes. Pioneering Remote Sleep Research: A Comparative Study of Sleep Stage Parameters in Diverse Datasets for Enhanced Interventions. SLEEP 2023, the 37th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS), June 6, 2023.
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Real-time Smartphone-based Sleep Staging using 1-Channel EEG and Machine Learning

Automatic and real-time sleep scoring is necessary to develop user interfaces that trigger stimuli in specific sleep stages. Howe…
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Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
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Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research

Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Andorra | Energy + Environment
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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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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Material Functionalization

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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Bio-Digital Wearables for Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
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Saving Face

“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 by …
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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Wedyan Babatain selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: MENA" for 2022

She was recognized for her work on the development of a soft multifunctional wearable platform.
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Wedyan Babatain selected as one of Forbes Middle East's "30 Under 30" for 2023

She was recognized in for her work on the development of a soft, multifunctional wearable platform.
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…
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BBC 100 Women 2023: Canan Dagdeviren

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements

Rico, A., Larson, K. & Gamboa, M. Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements. Sci Rep 13, 18958 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46236-3
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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From MIT to Burning Man: The Living Knitwork Pavilion

Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
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Dr. Dagdeviren participated in "Past, Present and Future of Digital Health" workshop as a panelist at IEEE BSN 2023

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of BSN, this special panel discussion is set to unveil the intricate journey of wearable computing a…
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Curiosity Unbounded Episode 4: Build your own superpower, then share it with the world

On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
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How x-ray vision is becoming a reality

Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
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Seamlessly weaving textile art, culture, and technology in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
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MIT-developed device could be a lifesaving gamechanger in diagnosing breast cancer

Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to Boston 25 News about a wearable ultrasound device that could help detect early-stage breast cancer.
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Wearable ultrasound that could detect breast cancer developed by MIT

Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to CBS News about a wearable ultrasound device that could allow users to detect early changes in breast tissue.