37+ min ago  (511+ words) By David L. Chandler for MIT News Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Politecnico di Bari have developed a new electrically driven artificial muscle fiber that contracts more like natural muscle than conventional robotic hardware. Reported in'Science Robotics'and'MIT News,'the…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago  (184+ words) A variety of Media Lab community members will participate in the2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (215+ words) MIT Media Lab Coin selection by Random Draw according to the Boltzmann distribution Coin selection refers to the problem of choosing a set of tokens to fund a transaction in token-based payment systems such as, e. g. , cryptocurrencies or central bank digital…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (562+ words) People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words'creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe. Modern image retrieval, however, still relies heavily on natural language. When users can't easily verbalize their visual memories,…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (117+ words) Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia premieres in Paris at the Cit" des Sciences et de l'Industrie as part of the official XR Competition at the New Images Festival. The project is directed by Gabriela Bil" and developed at the MIT Media Lab,…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (134+ words) Space Jellyfish by Valentina Sumini, Marta Rossi, Tommy Nilsson Space Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy harvesting, thermal dissipation, and maintainability'borrowing not the appearance, but the metabolic logic of one of Earth's most efficient organisms....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (188+ words) Shared autonomous bicycles could transform how we move through cities, but their impact depends on how they are designed and integrated. This project explores who adopts them, which trips they replace, and how service choices shape environmental outcomes. While our…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (162+ words) We are proud to share that Canan Dagdeviren, Principal Investigator of the Conformable Decoders group at the MIT Media Lab, has been invited to speak at the United Nations during the high-level event "Women Breaking Barriers." Hosted by the United…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (315+ words) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has historically played a vital role in helping to scale emerging technologies and maximize their societal benefits " from the laser printer and the personal computer to groupware and AI. HCI's tools and methodologies, honed over decades of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (169+ words) More people are turning to artificial intelligence for instant feedback on everything from relationship advice to daily decisions. Researchers at MIT's Media Lab say users often prefer AI because it doesn't judge them the way another person might. But experts…...