kinetiX—designing auxetic-inspired deformable material structures MIT Media Lab 2024-10-21 | kinetiX—designing auxetic-inspired deformable material structures
MIT Media Lab presents: Innovation Under the Stars MIT Media Lab 2024-10-02 | Experts explore new ways to connect with space through technology and creativity. Panelists will discuss democratizing space exploration, engaging young people in hands-on STEM education, and using data visualization to enhance public understanding of the cosmos. The event highlights the Lab's commitment to fostering diverse voices and innovative interdisciplinary approaches in space-related endeavors.For more information please visit: www.media.mit.edu/events/cambridge-science-festival-2024-mit-media-lab-presents-innovation-under-the-stars/
Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Meet HexSense MIT Media Lab 2024-08-27 | Meet HexSense, a sensor node designed to be deployed ballistically—in other words, shot out of a cannon—and automatically right itself no matter how it lands. With the support of industry collaborator Castrol, researchers with the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative tested HexSense in the rugged, volcanic landscape of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. Find out more about this work: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/castrol-moon/
Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Lava Tubes MIT Media Lab 2024-08-27 | Lava tubes—massive underground tunnels formed by ancient lava flows—offer a glimpse into potential human habitats under the lunar surface. Media Lab researchers, with support from our industry collaborator Castrol, recently visited one of the world’s largest lava tubes, in the Canary Islands, to test an innovative 3D imaging platform that could be used to create VR representations of lava tubes on the moon. Find out more about this work: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/castrol-moon/
Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Meet AstroAnt MIT Media Lab 2024-08-27 | Meet the AstroAnt! This miniaturized swarm robot can ride atop a lunar rover and collect data related to its health, including surface temperatures and damage from micrometeoroid impacts. In the summer of 2024, with support from our collaborator Castrol, the Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative tested AstroAnt in the Canary Islands, where the volcanic landscape resembles the lunar surface. Find out more about AstroAnt and its upcoming trip to the moon: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/castrol-moon/
Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Somewhere like the moon MIT Media Lab 2024-08-27 | Before researchers send a project like AstroAnt—a tiny robot meant to conduct inspections and diagnostic tasks on the external surfaces of spacecraft, rovers, and landers—to the lunar surface, they have to test it somewhere like the moon. With support from our industry collaborator Castrol, the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) took AstroAnt and a number of other projects to the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. This beautiful locale provides a valuable analog environment for space exploration, letting researchers test the limits of their equipment.Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/castrol-moon/
Media Lab + Castrol Collaboration: Test, test, test MIT Media Lab 2024-08-27 | As part of the Media Lab’s collaboration with Castrol, researchers with the Space Exploration Initiative recently tested the AstroAnt rover in the rugged environment of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. One of these tiny robots will soon be deployed on the #IM2 lunar mission—but first, these terrestrial tests help to ensure that its teeny-tiny wheels keep turning when it reaches the moon. Find out more about AstroAnt and the Media Lab's collaboration with Castrol: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/castrol-moon/
Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence MIT Media Lab 2024-08-01 | Light Sculptures is a series of artworks by Dexter Callender that transform the movement of light into sculptures made of glass. Callender, a student in the Media Lab’s Future Sketches research group, photographs light moving through architectural spaces and uses computer vision to transform that light into three-dimensional forms. Two of the sculptures are on display at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery through July, as part of Callender’s overall body of work, for which won the 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.More information at: www.media.mit.edu/projects/light-sculpture/overview
Media Lab SEI Zero Gravity Flight (May 2024) MIT Media Lab 2024-07-30 | On May 14 this spring, the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) hosted its sixth annual reduced gravity flight, offering researchers from across MIT and other institutions the special opportunity to test multiple projects in microgravity environments. The research on board investigated topics from potential medical device design, insulin pumps, and disinfectants in microgravity—helping promote accessibility and safety of spaceflight—to wireless sensor nodes for lunar exploration and zero gravity friendly board games. A total of 15 projects and 25 flyers launched into the sky from Pease Airport (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) aboard this recent flight. But this year, the flight featured an additional seventeen parabolas—beyond the normal twenty—as the pilots completed additional training. “Meaning everyone got a chance to put down the science for a moment and truly embrace the extraordinary feeling of being weightless.”—SEI Director Cody Paige. More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/a-parabolic-roller-coaster-into-the-future-of-space-and-lunar-exploration/
MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population MIT Media Lab 2024-07-25 | Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group at the Media Lab have developed MemPal, a wearable memory assistant for older adults to support safe and independent living at home and reduce caregiver burden. They tested the prototype within the homes of 15 older adults. Research Team: Natasha Maniar, Samantha Chan, Pattie Maes Videography: Jimmy Day, Cecilia Nafkoor More information at https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/mempal/overview/.
Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence MIT Media Lab 2024-07-25 | Light Sculptures is a series of artworks by Dexter Callender that transform the movement of light into sculptures made of glass. Callender, a student in the Media Lab’s Future Sketches research group, photographs light moving through architectural spaces and uses computer vision to transform that light into three-dimensional forms. Two of the sculptures are on display at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery through July, as part of Callender’s overall body of work, for which he won the 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.More information at: www.media.mit.edu/projects/light-sculpture/overview
Scientific InQueery MIT Media Lab 2024-06-13 | In "Scientific InQueery," MIT PhD students Jack Forman and Miranda Dawson, with MIT alum Tunahan Aytas, interviewed queer MIT faculty about their experiences and the importance of visibility. As co-leads of LGBTQ+ Grad, the producers created the project to inspire young LBGTQ+ academics to take pride in the intersections of their identities and their academic work.The video features Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and the dean of the School of Science; Sebastian Lourido, Associate Professor of Biology; Lorna Gibson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Bryan Bryson, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering; Tunahan Aytas, PhD ‘23 in Materials Science and Engineering; Miranda Dawson, PhD candidate in Biological Engineering, and Jack Forman, PhD candidate in Media Arts & Sciences.Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2024/scientific-inqueery-researchers-discuss-queer-visibility-in-academia-0613
Implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) for selective deep brain activation MIT Media Lab 2024-06-04 | Precise neurostimulation has potential to revolutionize therapies for neurologicaldisorders. However, current neural interfaces targeting the deep brain facesignificant limitations in spatial resolution and potency due to tissue attenuation.We developed an implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) thatgenerates an ultrasonic focal point pressure of 100 kPa and can non-geneticallymodulate the activity of neurons. We demonstrated that ImPULS can i) exciteneurons in a mouse hippocampal slice ex vivo, ii) activate cells in the hippocampusof an anesthetized mouse to induce expression of activity-dependentgene c-Fos, and iii) stimulate dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigrapars compacta (SNc) to elicit time-locked modulation of nigrostriatal dopaminerelease. This work introduces a novel, non-genetic ultrasound platform forspatially localized neural stimulation.For more information visit: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/implantable-piezoelectric-ultrasound-stimulator-impuls-for-deep-brain-activation/overview/
Personalized Learning with AI MIT Media Lab 2024-05-28 | Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we learn? In this fascinating discussion, we sit down with Pat Pataranutaporn, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, to explore the intersection of generative AI, personalized learning, and... dinosaurs? Pat shares his research inspired by his childhood fascination with dinosaurs on leveraging AI to create personalized learning experiences tailored to each individual's unique interests.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/
Optogenetic muscle control MIT Media Lab 2024-05-22 | Closed-loop neuroprostheses show promise in restoring motion in individuals with neurological conditions. However, conventional activation strategies based on functional electrical stimulation (FES) fail to accurately modulate muscle force and exhibit rapid fatigue because of its unphysiological recruitment mechanism. Here we present a closed-loop control framework that leverages physiological force modulation under functional optogenetic stimulation (FOS) to enable high-fidelity muscle control for extended periods of time (more than 60 minutes) in vivo. We first uncovered the force modulation characteristic of FOS, showing more physiological recruitment and significantly higher modulation ranges (more than 320%) compared to FES. Second, we developed a neuromuscular model that accurately describes the highly non-linear dynamics of optogenetically-stimulated muscle. Third, based on the optogenetic model, we demonstrate real-time control of muscle force with improved performance and fatigue resistance compared to FES. This work lays the foundation for fatigue-resistant neuroprostheses and optogenetically-controlled biohybrid robots with high-fidelity force modulation.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/optogenetic-muscle-control/overview/
Life with AI MIT Media Lab 2024-05-15 | Machines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all tools, they can be used for good or evil. How can we design artificial intelligence (AI) to augment people and change humanity for the better? There are numerous potential pitfalls of living and working in a world where AI is ubiquitous and touches how we inform ourselves, learn, make decisions, and care for our health. While accuracy, efficiency, privacy, and non-bias of AI systems are all essential, they alone do not guarantee that the consequences will be beneficial when these systems are introduced in a human context.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/media-lab-research-theme-life-with-ai/overview/
Cultivating Creativity MIT Media Lab 2024-05-15 | The accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s society—nationally and globally—highlight the urgency for all of us to become more inventive, empathetic, and creative in everything we do. More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/media-lab-research-theme-cultivating-creativity/overview/
Decentralized Society MIT Media Lab 2024-05-15 | Our world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sectors, including health, climate, supply chain, and transportation. These challenges require solutions that foster cooperation, promote shared prosperity, and align the interests of multiple entities. However, achieving these solutions is difficult because they require incentivization without relying on trust, knowledge sharing without centralization, and decentralized AI across data partitions.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/media-lab-research-theme-decentralized-society/overview/
Connected Mind and Body MIT Media Lab 2024-05-15 | As mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by inequities and modern life's pressures, we face an urgent call to action. How do we meet these escalating needs and dismantle the pervasive stigma and discrimination they attract?More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/media-lab-research-theme-connected-body-mind/overview/
Future Worlds—Design and action for the future we want to live in MIT Media Lab 2024-05-15 | We uniquely combine interdisciplinary expertise—from oceans to space, genetics to cities—and develop artificial intelligence, machine learning, supercomputer visualizations, and powerful experiences to change human behavior. We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy. The goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.media.mit.edu/groups/media-lab-research-theme-future-worlds/overview
Memoro: Wearable Memory Assistant using Personal AI MIT Media Lab 2024-03-13 | People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based personal memory assistant that uses an AI agent.Memoro automatically captures real-world auditory interactions of the user and converts them into digital memories. During recall, the assistant can directly infer memory needs using context, search, and present minimal suggestions to weave into daily life and conversations.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/memoro/overview/
Spintronic Devices for Energy-efficient Computation (a closer look) MIT Media Lab 2024-02-22 | Spintronics is an emerging technology for building computers, which involves using an electron’s “spin” in addition to its negative charge for performing computation energy-efficiently. Spintronic computing devices are built using magnetic materials, and a special class of magnetic, i.e. two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials offer properties which can enable creating scalable and energy-efficient spintronic devices suitable for real world applications. However, much like superconductors, the 2D vdW magnetic materials could operate only at very low temperatures until recently.In a significant advancement, researchers in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group at MIT Media Lab have made it possible to operate (electrically switch) the vdW magnets above room temperature. This development clears the path for realizing the potential of 2D vdW materials for building highly energy-efficient computers.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/nano-cybernetic-biotrek/overview/
Spintronic Devices for Energy-efficient Computation MIT Media Lab 2024-02-22 | Technologies like artificial intelligence, big data and internet of things (IoT) are resulting in a meteoric growth of the world’s computing infrastructure. So much so that computers are currently the world’s fastest growing consumers of electricity and have serious implications for our energy security and climate change. Spintronics, which broadly refers to the use of magnetic materials and the "spin" of electrons to perform computation, offers a path to make our computers exceedingly energy efficient, to allow for growing the world’s computing infrastructure sustainably.The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group at the MIT Media Lab is leading efforts in bringing such energy-efficient spintronic devices to reality, using a special class of magnetic materials—two-dimensional van der Waals magnets, which offer several advantages for translating to real world computers.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d-neuromorphic-devices-for-sustainable-artificial-intelligence/overview/
Neural hand prosthesis control test MIT Media Lab 2024-01-09 | Dave Burke works with Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez to test a prosthesis with neural control, by cutting a sheet of paper with scissors. This is the first time in 30 years that Dave has performed this task with his missing hand.Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/connected-mind-body-landing-1/ Project credits: Michael Fernandez, Junquing Qiao, Maria Gonzalez, and Hugh Herr
Organs without Bodies MIT Media Lab 2023-12-20 | We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made from big AI models will start to permeate our intimate shared and home spaces. As these digital designs are given a body through advanced 3D printing technologies, any artifact can be generated almost instantaneously. What kind of transformative effect will this have on us as humans and on our meaning making? What will be the role of the human in the loop? Will this lead to a surge in human creativity and expression, or will the constraints of these models end up dictating human meaning and reinforce biases?Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/organs/overview/
FibeRobo: Powerful Body-Temperature Morphing Fibers MIT Media Lab 2023-10-26 | FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication technique and chemical composition of the fiber enables self-reversing morphing at, or optionally slightly above, body temperature. These fibers, once formed into the larger textile structure through knitting, weaving, and sewing techniques, enables a myriad of applications from medical devices (compressions shirts), athletic wear (self-ventilating clothing), to interactive eating experiences (morphing table cloths), and transforming fashion pieces. Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/fiberobo/overview/Note: Video has no spoken audio. Music plays throughout.
The Living Knitwork Pavilion at night MIT Media Lab 2023-10-13 | Note: This video includes some strobe effects.The Living Knitwork Pavilion is a customized and modular textile shade structure (dodecagonal pyramid: 18ft high and 26ft wide) consisting of 3D-knitted optically and electrically-active yarns that sense activities and dynamically change color and light up through the day and night.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/living-knitwork/overview/Video has no spoken audio. Electronic music plays throughout.
Consortium Membership at MIT Media Lab MIT Media Lab 2023-09-25 | What does it mean to become a consortium member at MIT Media Lab? Rébecca Kleinberger shows how she navigates dozens of research groups to explore new opportunities as the employee-in-residence for HARMAN International.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/
What is the MIT Media Lab? MIT Media Lab 2023-09-25 | Founded in 1985, the Media Lab is an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic rigor, comprising dozens of research groups, initiatives, and centers working collaboratively on hundreds of projects. We focus not only on creating and commercializing transformational future technologies but also on their potential to impact society for good.MORE: https://www.media.mit.edu/about/overview/
Castrol joins the MIT Media Lab to support research on lunar landings MIT Media Lab 2023-09-20 | Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program—a miniature robotic swarm designed to perform tasks on the surfaces of spacecraft, rovers, and landers.In this video, Ariel Ekblaw, Principal Investigator, MIT To the Moon to Stay, talks about the AstroAnt research project with Nicola Buck, Sr. Vice President, Marketing, bp, research collaborator, Castrol.MORE: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/astroant-and-castrol/ or castrol.com/en/global/corporate/about-castrol/newsroom/mit-lunar-landings.html
Illuminate: What would it be like if we could see our movement? MIT Media Lab 2023-08-02 | Illuminate is an interactive art installation in which the movement of a person in space is augmented and brought to life in front of them in real time through custom interactive visualization software. The installation is concerned with the poetic implications of making the invisible trails of our human movement visible.More information at: media.mit.edu/projects/illuminate/overview/
TeleAbsence: Communication with those who are no longer with us. MIT Media Lab 2023-07-26 | Presence and Absence are fundamental states of being for mortal humans; being present or close, and being absent, far away, or lost [Ishii 2020]. We propose TeleAbsence as a counter concept to Telepresence. The purpose of Telepresence is to connect people who are alive. TeleAbsence aims to create illusionary communication channels with those no longer with us to soothe the pain of bereavement. TeleAbsence is designed around tangible objects, such as old typewriters, telephones, brushes, and pianos that were once touched and marked by the hand of a loved one.More information at: TeleAbsence project page: media.mit.edu/projects/teleabsence-1/overview/ambientPhoneBooth project page: media.mit.edu/projects/teleabsence-ambientphonebooth/overview/GhostTypeWriter project page: media.mit.edu/projects/ghosttypewriter/overview/ ColloGraphy project page: media.mit.edu/projects/collography/overview/CAST: arts.mit.edu/cast/MIT Media Lab: media.mit.edu
Photorythms - a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photography MIT Media Lab 2023-06-23 | Photorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial detection, computer vision, and generative forms can be utilized to create more expressive and artistic works of portraiture and the face. Giving a new take on portrait photography and new life to images through computation.Can portrait photos, and photos of people, be more expressive than they are today?Can computational methods assist this?For more information visit: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/photorythms/overview/
Introducing CoCo: A real-time co-creative learning platform for young people MIT Media Lab 2023-05-31 | Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, PhD students in the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, have launched CoCo (https://coco.build)—a new platform for young people to co-create, code, and collaborate with peers in real-time. Educators from 65+ countries have signed on to the beta release. Email: hello@coco.buildMusic: www.hooksounds.comTime Stamps:00:00 CoCo — A new way of Being. Creative. Together.01:15 Explore new co-creative possibilities00:40 Getting started with CoCo01:10 Create and code together in a live shared space01:23 Peek inside a co-creator’s project01:28 Discover live remixing01:43 Program live video experiences together01:54 New peer programming blocks02:01 CoCo environments for text-based coding, creative writing, and art making02:17 Private CoCo corridors for classrooms and communities02:36 CoCo as a "self-less" social platform03:10 PhD students at MIT—Taking CoCo forward03:22 Join the invite list for the betaLearn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/cocobuild/overview/
Interest of Values: Digital Currency, Web3, and Trustworthy Networks MIT Media Lab 2023-05-25 | Interest of Values: Digital Currency, Web3, and Trustworthy NetworksModerator: Charamporn Jotikasthira, Executive Director, Bangkok BankGuy Zyskind, MIT Media LabDr. Luis Alonso, MIT Media LabZiv Epstein, MIT Media LabKasidit Tansanguan, Director, Digital Currency Team, Corporate Strategy and Planning Group, Bank of ThailandPanel DiscussionMore information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/mit-media-lab-southeast-asian-forum/
MIT Media Lab Corporate Member Experience: John Roese, Dell Technologies MIT Media Lab 2023-05-24 | John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies, talks about his experience as a member of the MIT Media Lab.See the full video and learn more at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/membership-levels
MIT Media Lab Corporate Member Experience: Paul Noll, Steelcase MIT Media Lab 2023-05-24 | Paul Noll, Pricipal Researcher at Steelcase, talks about his experience as a member of the MIT Media Lab.See the full video and learn more at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/membership-levels
MIT Media Lab Corporate Member Experience: Roger Meike, Intuit MIT Media Lab 2023-05-24 | Roger Meike, Director of Innovation at Intuit, talks about his experience as a long-time member of the MIT Media Lab.See the full video and learn more at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/membership-levels
MIT Media Lab Corporate Member Experience: Deborah Stokes, Dell Technologies MIT Media Lab 2023-05-24 | Deb Stokes, in External Research at Dell Technologies, talks about her experience as a long-time member of the MIT Media Lab.See the full video and learn more at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/membership-levels
cUSP - Conformable Ultrasound Sonophoresis Patch MIT Media Lab 2023-04-19 | Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has failed to attain tangible commercial success. While localized, needleless delivery of drugs is an exciting prospect, the bulky, power-consumptive equipment and long exposure times do not justify the highly-variable, operator-dependent outcomes in the permeability enhancement effects observed in vivo. We report a conformable ultrasound patch (cUSP) with embedded bulk piezoelectric elements to provide short-exposure (10 minutes) ultrasound and effect a 26.2-fold enhancement in niacinamide transport to the dermis. The final system is packaged in a compact form-factor on a flexible polymer substrate that can be applied on facial skin to aid hands-free penetration of popular cosmeceuticals. The ease-of-use and high-repeatability offered by the proposed system provides a game-changing alternative to patients and consumers suffering from skin conditions and premature skin aging.https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/conformable-ultrasound-patch-cufpatch-for-cavitation-enhanced-transdermal-drug-delivery/overview/
The Shipt Calculator: Challenging Gig Economy Black-box Algorithms with Worker Pay Stubs MIT Media Lab 2023-04-12 | The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raises the question of whether workers can use similar technologies to advocate for their own goals. Yet, there are inherent challenges in building worker-centric tools that collect, aggregate, and share data in responsible and ethical ways.This project is a tool developed in collaboration with non-profit worker groups that allows app-based delivery workers to track and share aggregate data about their pay, increasing wage transparency. We used the Calculator to audit Shipt's shift to a black-box pay model using data contributed by over 100 workers in the summer of 2020, finding that although the average pay per-order increased under the new payment model, almost half of workers experienced an unannounced pay cut during the shift, and many workers worked shifts that paid under their state's minimum wage.More information at: mitmedialab.info/ShiptYT
Beyond the Cradle: Main Stage Session MIT Media Lab 2023-03-16 | This will be a day-long event with multiple networking breaks, plenary talks and panel discussions, breakout sessions, and workshops. We will also have exhibits on display from artists Josh Simpson, Mikael Owunna, Marques Redd, Zach Mendoza, and several members of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and Aurelia Institute. More information at: beyond.media.mit.edu
Beyond the Cradle: Breakout Room Session MIT Media Lab 2023-03-16 | This will be a day-long event with multiple networking breaks, plenary talks and panel discussions, breakout sessions, and workshops. We will also have exhibits on display from artists Josh Simpson, Mikael Owunna, Marques Redd, Zach Mendoza, and several members of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and Aurelia Institute. More information at: beyond.media.mit.edu
MIT Space Exploration Initiative prepares explorers for space, Mars, and remote corners of Earth. MIT Media Lab 2023-03-09 | Arctic Space Analog Expedition MIT Space Exploration Initiative A team of scientists, engineers, and designers embark on an Arctic expedition to test space technology. The MIT Space Exploration Initiative expedition in Svalbard was not simply a space analog mission, but an experience to learn how to help enable better access to remote regions from the far corners of planet Earth, to the Moon and Mars. About MIT Space Exploration Initiative: With society at the cusp of interplanetary civilization, the MIT Space Exploration Initiative takes a unique approach to humanity’s horizons. We are building the technologies and artifacts for life in space that will empower and delight Earth’s citizens for this new phase of our collective existence. In doing so, we build on the spirit of the MIT Media Lab, uniting artists, scientists, engineers and designers to prototype our Sci-Fi space future. We are creating space technologies that envision a bold and culturally rich “new space age”, from astro-bacteria wearables, to open-access and shareable cubesat constellations, to musical instruments for our space voyages, to floating space habitats. The philosophy of “democratizing access to space exploration”—bringing moonshots, starshots, and earthshots into the purview of hackers and makers—courses through our work. For the MIT community and our collaborators, the Space Exploration Initiative leads space research and launch opportunities across annual zero-g flights, suborbital launches, ISS missions, and MIT's return to the Moon. The Space Exploration Initiative supports up to 40 research projects in a given year, extensive STEAM outreach, and a team of 50+ researchers.Expedition Leader: Maggie CoblentzMission Integration: Sean Auffinger Researchers: Somayajulu DhulipalaJoseph Kennedy Cody Paige Sana Sharma Jessica Todd Learn more about this project: mitmedialab.info/seisvlalbardWebsite: https://explore-space.mit.edu Twitter: twitter.com/ExploreSpace_ML Instagram: https://.instagram.com/explorespace_ml MIT Media LabAriel Eklblaw, Director, MIT Space Exploration Initiative
Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision MIT Media Lab 2023-02-27 | MIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines wireless sensing with computer vision to enable users to see hidden items. X-AR can help users find missing items and guide them toward these items for retrieval. This new technology has many applications in retail, warehousing, manufacturing, smart homes, and more.For more information, check out:Website: https://Xar.media.mit.edu Paper: https://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/XAR-paper.pdf Instagram: @mit_sk_lab (instagram.com/mit_sk_lab)Authors: Tara Boroushaki, Maisy Lam, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel AdibVideo Production: Maisy Lam, Jimmy DayUI design: Maisy Lam, Yuechen WangFunding: NSF, Sloan Foundation, MIT Media Lab
DayDreamNight: A lucid evening at MIT exploring dreams MIT Media Lab 2023-02-01 | DayDreamNight was a gathering for the MIT community to explore the collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group.The selected projects open up avenues for understanding and shifting our sleep, dreams, and daydreams. More information at: Sleep & Dream theme page: mitmedialab.info/SleepDream Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller: mitmedialab.info/DreamHotel MIT Museum Studio: mitmedialab.info/mitmuseumstudio Flying Dreams: mitmedialab.info/FlyingDreams #dreams #daydreamer #daydreamnight#cultivatingcreativity
A Tribute to Glorianna Davenport (MIT Media Lab Fall Meeting 2022) MIT Media Lab 2023-01-03 | At the MIT Media Lab's 2022 Fall Meeting, Lab director Dava Newman and professors Tod Machover and Joseph Paradiso spoke during a tribute to Glorianna Davenport, a founding member of the Media Lab and longtime contributor to the Lab community.More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/a-tribute-to-glorianna-davenport/
Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI Assistant MIT Media Lab 2022-12-08 | Developed by researchers in the Fluid Interfaces research group, "Wearable Reasoner" is a proof-of-concept wearable system capable of analyzing whether an argument is stated with supporting evidence, to prompt people to question and reflect on the justification of their own beliefs and the arguments of others. This project is included in the AI: Mind the Gap exhibition at the MIT Museum.Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable-reasoner/overview/
Magnetic Implants for Muscle Tracking MIT Media Lab 2022-10-25 | Nearly all movement in the animal kingdom is driven by muscles, but can we more accurately measure how our muscles move during natural activity? Researchers at MIT Media Lab have validated that a strategy for tracking muscle movement can do that — track muscle motion outside the lab environment with through the use of implanted magnetic beads. These particular magnetic beads are also biocompatible, necessary for applying this technology toward improved control over prostheses and exoskeletons.Scripted, screen written, and directed by Cameron TaylorProduced by Cameron Taylor and Jimmy DayEste video también está disponible en español: youtu.be/YIoGx18mvfMMore information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetomicrometry/
Implantes Magnéticos para el Rastreo Muscular MIT Media Lab 2022-10-25 | Casi todo el movimiento del reino animal está impulsado por los músculos, pero ¿podemos medir con mayor precisión cómo se mueven nuestros músculos durante la actividad natural? Los investigadores del MIT Media Lab han comprobado que una estrategia del rastreo del movimiento muscular puede hacerlo: rastrear el movimiento de los músculos fuera del entorno del laboratorio mediante el uso de imanes implantados. Estos imanes son también biocompatibles, algo necesario para aplicar esta tecnología para mejorar el control de prótesis y exoesqueletos.Guión, dirección, y traducción de Cameron TaylorProducido por Cameron Taylor y Jimmy DayGracias a Samantha Gutierrez-Arango por su ayuda en la revisión de la traducción al español.Magnetic Implants for Muscle Tracking (versión en inglés): youtu.be/sdDeRgAUsWo Más información en: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetomicrometry/
Battery-free wireless underwater camera MIT Media Lab 2022-09-26 | Introducing the world’s first battery-free underwater wireless camera, with applications to climate change monitoring, tracking ocean pollution, food security, disaster response, and exploring the unknown regions of the ocean.More information at: https://news.mit.edu/2022/battery-free-wireless-underwater-camera-0926
