Ingenuity, design, and human spirit
A new book from the MIT Future Heritage Lab goes inside a Syrian refugee camp to uncover the creative lives of its inhabitants.
A new book from the MIT Future Heritage Lab goes inside a Syrian refugee camp to uncover the creative lives of its inhabitants.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
“Robotic” textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes.
Wise Systems has grown from an MIT class project to a company helping multinationals improve last-mile logistics.
Long-term study of Melbourne, Australia, shows how urban development and change affects pedestrians, not just automobiles.
The transaction-based communications system ensures robot teams achieve their goal even if some robots are hacked.
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.
With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT.
The effort raised more than $6 billion to spark innovation on global challenges.
Interdisciplinary research center funded by philanthropist Lisa Yang aims to mitigate disability through technologies that marry human physiology with electromechanics.
Figur8, founded by MIT alumna Nan-Wei Gong SM ’09, PhD ’13, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
Professors Noelle Selin and Anne White will co-chair the Climate Nucleus, charged with managing and implementing MIT’s new plan.
Record number of honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community.
Transformational projects bring inclusive, welcoming spaces to the MIT campus.
Jeevan Kalanithi SM ’07 is CEO of OpenSpace, a company founded by three Media Lab graduates using computer vision to benefit the construction industry.