LabCAST

Design and the Elastic Mind was an exhibit at New York City’s MoMA with works by MIT Media Lab researchers. Thanks to the MoMA.

Nexi is an MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) Robot designed and built in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group, UMASS Amherst’s Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics.

Welcome to a place where the future is lived not imagined.

Stiff People’s League is a mixed-reality table soccer game in which teams of virtual and real players compete together. It debuted at Ars Electronica 2007.

Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media.

A new technological magic show by Media Lab Alum Seth Raphael.

The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rather than simply as a tool.

Death and the Powers will showcase groundbreaking advances in musical language and materials, scenographic technique, and performance technology

Seamless: Computational Couture 2008 is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. This year’s show was produced by Media Lab student Amanda Parkes, Media Lab alumna Christine Liu and the Museum of Science, Boston. Watch the entire show here.

Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses student life with student Taemie Kim.

Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses the resources available at the  Lab with student David Merrill.

Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months.  We are currently running a study with fifteen of these robots in local homes so that we can gather information on how people use the system, what they think about their relationship with it, and how both of [...]

Sponsor week is a major twice a year event where the Media Lab sponsors have the chance to visit the lab and learn about the latest research.  Catch a glimpse of the Media Lab in action.

AUR is a robotic desk lamp, a collaborative lighting assistant. It serves as a non-anthropomorphic robotic platform as part of research on human-robot fluency, embodiment, and nonverbal behavior.

Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel prosthesis is capable of propelling the wearer forward and varying its stiffness over irregular terrain, successfully mimicking the action of a biological ankle, and, for the first time, providing amputees with a truly humanlike [...]