We’re happy to welcome HCLTech as the newest member of the MIT Media Lab—joining a global network of organizations working together to shape the future of technology and its impact on society. HCLTech is a leading global technology company delivering cutting-edge capabilities in digital, engineering, cloud, and AI. With a strong track record of innovation and a people-first mindset, HCLTech comes to the Lab to explore real-world applications of artificial intelligence through responsible,...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Canan Dagdeviren on how WHx, AI, and wearable tech are advancing early, personalized care and closing gaps in women’s health.| MIT Media Lab
Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.| MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvelt leads a community-driven effort on Nantucket to engineer Lyme-immune mice and stop the disease at its source| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
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MIT’s Rosalind Picard: Wearables can revolutionize women’s health, yet today’s devices reflect just a fraction of the potential.| MIT Media Lab
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NASA’s Earth-observation satellite programs, Professor Wood writes, are vital to understanding and protecting the environment.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2025 semester| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is pleased to welcome Mitsubishi Electric Corporation as a new member of our global consortium.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Jessica Rosenworcel, former FCC Chairwoman, joins the MIT Media Lab as Executive Director, bringing bold vision and civic-minded leadership.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Dr. Karrie Karahalios returns to the MIT Media Lab as Professor, advancing AI that’s transparent, equitable, and people-centered.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Pioneering researcher joins the MIT faculty to explore the future of human flourishing with technology.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Danielle Wood on Future of Space Exploration on Bloomberg’s The Close.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Visionary Computer Music Pioneer, Composer, and Founding Faculty Member of the MIT Media Lab| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Study: Using AI Could Cost You Brainpower| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Congratulations to the five fellowship recipients!| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The WHx Program and WHx Women’s Health Innovation Fund are revolutionizing women's health through interdisciplinary innovation, combining AI, wearable technology, and biomedical research. This program addresses critical, often overlooked health disparities affecting women globally, aiming to improve individual outcomes and promote health equity. Women face unique health challenges throughout their lives, yet historical underfunding and research gaps have left these issues inadequately add...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
A panel from MIT Media Lab and Dell highlights a lunar mission using AI and XR to advance human-centered, sustainable space exploration.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Dr. Dava Newman challenged graduates to merge creativity with purpose, science with soul, and design with direction.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next!| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy has been named a 2025 Karman Fellow for her leadership in space sustainability and climate innovation.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
PhD student Andres Rico selected as a 2024 Martin Fellow for his work on community-based sensing for water management in cities.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
MIT MAD has established new professorships and appointed three MIT faculty to advance design education across disciplines.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
We are pleased to welcome MARA, a leading energy technology company advancing the world's energy systems, as a new Member Organization.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
She is recognized for her distinguished contributions in the field of artificial intelligence education.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forward 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, privac...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The award ceremony honored ten individuals shaping contemporary Bengali society.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Imagine what we can co-create. Every day, we collaborate with global leaders to spark creativity and shape the future. Through groundbreaking research, we bring bold ideas to life, inventing the technologies of tomorrow. Our diverse community of thinkers + creators inspires organizations to dream bigger, explore new possibilities, and lead the way in transforming their industries.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challenges 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.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's fellowship!| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The tool is the brainchild of a team that includes MIT Media Lab postdoctorate Pat Pataranutaporn, who studies AI systems that help people f| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Publication: Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
This award honors an individual or group in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Hugh Herr pioneers brain-controlled prosthetics, merging tech and biology to restore mobility and enhance human potential beyond limits.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical Wellbeing 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?| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
As part of a biosensing device without wires, the antennas could help researchers decode intricate electrical signals sent by cells.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
This video series features our current students, offering glimpses into their backgrounds, their research, and the passions behind the work| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living things How can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on Earth? How can we turn the tide to regenerate Earth’s systems while enabling societies to flourish? The urgent challenge is to supply affordable energy, food, and security for sustained life on Earth—for all living beings—by inventing transformative technologies and adapting human behavior at an unprecedented scale at this critical time in history.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative Design—Design + Technology for Societal Impact starting September 1, 2024. Behnaz Farahi is an award-winning designer and critical maker. Trained as an architect, she also holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice from the University of Southern California (USC). Farahi's work focuses on fostering empathetic relationships between the human body and it...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologies 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 decentr...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
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As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observation (EO) technology and innovation are championing a new era for climate intelligence, offering unprecedented insights and solutions to address these urgent challenges. Recent EO innovations, combined with the growth of synergistic technologies (technologies that enhance each other’s effectiveness), are eliminating barriers to the effective use of EO at sca...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a core theme of the Lab's "Connected Mind + Body" research focus. In recognition of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is spotlighting its work with the MIT Media Lab, aligned with the lab's Connected Mind + Body research theme. This collaboration, established in October 2023 through Samsung’s Open Innovation Initiative, taps into the expertise of the MIT...| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
Paul Liang joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing with a shared appointment in MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) as Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Experience starting September 1, 2024.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.| News + Updates - MIT Media Lab
View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.| MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.| MIT Media Lab
The Identity CrisisThe multi-agent systems field faces an identity crisis. As LLMs dominate AI discourse, researchers rebrand orchestrated applications as "Mul…| MIT Media Lab
AI chatbots, especially those with voice capabilities, have become increasingly human-like, with more users seeking emotional support and companionship from th…| MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …| MIT Media Lab
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…| MIT Media Lab