The mission of the Space Enabled research group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our messag…
Personal RobotsThe Personal Robots group bridges the gap between intelligent personified technologies and human collaborative behavior. We …
FLUID INTERFACESWhile today's devices put the world’s information at our fingertips, they do not help us with some of the cognitive s…
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated skill…
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
For more details visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek (NCB) research group is an adventurous scientif…
Founded spring of 2019 by artist Ekene Ijeoma, PJG researches social, political, and environmental issues and develops multimedia works usi…
Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…
We explore how diverse and distributed sensors augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception, while developing new sens…
Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative
RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) is a new MIT-wide initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab …
The internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an articl…
The Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) works at the intersection of community organizing and movement building, collective intelligen…
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops innovative technologies and cultivates caring communities to engage young people from diverse back…
We live in an ocean of physical patterns: heartbeats, respiration, muscle movements, neural activity, tidal waves, airflow, ambient humidit…
How your support helps to achieve the vision Funding research: We rely on funding from corporate members, foundations, and individual …
Viral Communications at the Media Lab is all about how systems scale. We premiered scalable video in the '90s, we built scalable mesh radio…
The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…
The Human Dynamics group uses the tools of computational social science to ask how we can better organize society, government, and companie…
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to t…
The Director's Circle is a small group of advisors chosen for their expertise and passion in one or more of the domains reflected…
We know from early Roman mosaics that physical rehabilitation and amplification technologies have been used during much of recorded history…
The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Worl…
The Media Lab Director’s Fellows connect a global network of visionary leaders with the Lab's interdisciplinary research culture.…
The Director’s Fellows program was intended to create a diverse global network empowered by technology and creativity from the MIT Media La…
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…
The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…
What are the Event SpacesThe MIT Media Lab event spaces are within buildings E14 and E15 and can accommodate a wide array of event size con…
Beyond the Cradle 2024MIT Media LabBuilding E14, 6th FloorBeyond the CradleThursday, April 4, 2024In-person with livestreamEmail beyon…
The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…
The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…
The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…
The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…
Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…
Evolution gave rise to every living thing and all of human culture, but evolved systems are very different from those designed by huma…
The MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were a…
To achieve our DEI aspirations, the Diversity and Leadership Committee and the DEI Working Group strategize, prioritize, and evaluate …
The Camera Culture group focuses on making the invisible visible—inside our bodies, around us, and beyond—for health, work, and connection.…
The Signal Kinetics group invents wireless technologies to interconnect, sense, and perceive the physical world in ways that were not possi…
The Molecular Machines group is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro scale engineering, which seeks to understand and approach the f…
For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…
As of 2021, the MIT Media Lab's Social Machines group has merged with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. The Laboratory fo…
The Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio designs tools and methods for more engaging, more equitable, online learning and collaboration …
The Critical Computing group explores ways that static and moving images can become primary tools for reflection and explanation. we devel…
Things That Think is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. Toward this end, Things That Think researchers a…
The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that we…
Research from Dr. Shah's lab creates novel intersections between deep learning, engineering, and medicine to discover novel biological and …
The ML Learning Initiative has merged into the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio!
The MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that w…
The MIT Media Lab’s Open Ocean Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were a…
The MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that …
The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …
The MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were assoc…
The MIT Media Lab’s Object-Based Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that wer…
The research of the Smart Cities group focuses on intelligent, sustainable buildings, mobility systems, and cities. It explores the applica…
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections—and it matters which…
The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of import…