1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (154+ words) Today's indoor sensing systems face a fundamental tradeoff: cameras provide rich visual detail but raise privacy concerns, while traditional wireless sensors preserve privacy yet lack detailed spatial understanding. We introduce a new way to see indoor spaces using a single,…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (168+ words) Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, an MLK Visiting Scholar in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has been named one of The Explorers Club 50 (EC50) for 2026 " an annual recognition of "fifty people changing the world, the world needs to know about." Fatoyinbo…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (200+ words) Machine Symphony & After AGI: Two Visions of Creation in the Age of the Machine Two Opera of the Future students, Treyden Chiaravalloti and Antonis Christou, present a compelling double bill that brings together two original works exploring the question, "What…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (265+ words) MIT Media Lab Cry for AI: A Moss-Controlled AI Wearable for Resource-Aware Interaction - Behnaz Farahi Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Professor Seemingly infinite AI requests rely on finite material resources like cooling water,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (113+ words) MIT Media Lab This study explores the feasibility of using smile and smirk expression dynamics, captured through our novel stimulus-based mobileaffective probe, as candidate digital biomarkers of depression severity within a large-scale mobile health intervention trial, Be Well. Mixed-effects models…...

2+ week, 5+ day 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+ week, 5+ day 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day 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…...

3+ week, 5+ day 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,…...

3+ week, 6+ day 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,…...