MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT’s Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture

A wearable patch that applies painless ultrasonic waves to the skin to deliver drugs

A comfortable form-fitting smart fabric recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping

Better control of prosthetic limbs using magnets

Giving robots superhuman perception

An interactive touchscreen display that can be sprayed in any shape

Could proteins halt the severe cytokine storms seen in Covid-19 patients?

The dawn of cyborg botany : Introducing a plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfaced with a robotic extension that drives it toward light. Plants are electrically active systems. They get bio-electrochemically excited and conduct these signals between tissues and organs. Such electrical signals are produced in

The dawn of cyborg botany : Introducing a plant-robot hybrid

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense food contamination

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination. MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination — with no hardware modifications needed. With the simple, scalable system, the researchers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense food contamination

Exploring the ethics of autonomous vehicles globally and regionally

Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and regional differences. A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those preferences. The survey has global reach and a unique scale, with over 2 million online participants from over 200

Exploring the ethics of autonomous vehicles globally and regionally

Wireless water-air communications breakthrough for data transmission between underwater and airborne devices

In a novel system developed by MIT researchers, underwater sonar signals cause vibrations that can be decoded by an airborne receiver. MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne devices. Today, underwater sensors cannot share data with those on land, as both

Wireless water-air communications breakthrough for data transmission between underwater and airborne devices

Your new tattoo could also monitor your health without batteries

Researchers aim beyond wearables with project combining art, medicine Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises. The work, conducted by two postdoctoral fellows at Harvard Medical School and colleagues led by Katia Vega at MIT’s

Your new tattoo could also monitor your health without batteries

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light — the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D movie systems — they can increase the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging devices as much as 1,000 times. The technique could lead to

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment MIT researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system that could ultimately replace a $100,000 piece of a lab equipment with components that cost just hundreds of dollars. The system uses a technique called fluorescence lifetime imaging, which has

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Glasses-free 3-D projector

New design could also make conventional 2-D video higher in resolution and contrast. Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could provide a cheaper, more practical alternative to holographic video in the short term.

Glasses-free 3-D projector

Printed Electronics: A Multi-Touch Sensor Customizable With Scissors

A new circuit layout makes it robust against cuts, damage, and removed areas. If a pair of long pants is too long, it is cut to length. A board that does not fit into a bookcase is sawed to the right length. People often customize the size and shape of materials like textiles and wood

Printed Electronics: A Multi-Touch Sensor Customizable With Scissors

Downloadable Soil Sensors Can Be Printed by Local Farmers

In the future farmers will be able to download their own sensors To help farmers irrigate their crops more efficiently and save water, Yoshihiro Kawahara, an Associate Professor in the department of Information and Communication Engineering at The University of Tokyo, developed paper-printable sensors that provide real-time measurements of soil moisture. Kawahara worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of

Downloadable Soil Sensors Can Be Printed by Local Farmers

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SIGGRAPH 2024: highlights from day one of this year's conference
SIGGRAPH 2024 kicked off yesterday (28 July) at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver with big-name talks and demonstrations on computer graphics, production, animation, gaming and new technologies ...
Hyper-Personalized AI in Healthcare: A Benefit or a Threat?
Hyper-personalized AI can potentially transform healthcare and patient outcomes, but safeguards are needed to protect against ethical concerns.
MIT Technology Review
As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer. AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being used to ...
Facing Up To The Threat Of AI
Interview with Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI, who is at the center of a growing debate about how these technologies affect our lives.
Infinite Play: Training for the Unexpected
Play philosopher and trauma therapist Gwen Gordon—who began her career building Muppets for Sesame Street—talks about the transformative power of "infinite play." ...

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MIT Technology Review
The White House’s voluntary AI commitments have brought better red-teaming practices and watermarks, but no meaningful transparency or accountability.
The Porch: Science Experiment At Tulsa's Discovery Lab Recreates Lightning
Science class teaches kids about protons, neutrons, and electrons. Discovery Lab is taking that learning a step further by using a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator to demonstrate how these ...
The huge potential — and the overpromises — of lab-grown meat
She has served as Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and as a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. Isha has a BSc. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Alberta and a Masters in ...
MIT breakthrough: Neutrons cling to quantum dots in wild discovery
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrated the groundbreaking discovery and controlled production of quantum dots. MIT Professor Moungi Bawendi was honored for this work alongside two other ...
AI hub launches in Cambridge with CIC, MIT Media Lab spinout
Driving the news: CIC, which operates "innovation campuses" worldwide, partnered with C10 Labs, an MIT Media Lab spinout, to launch an AI venture studio space. C10 Labs is moving into a space ...