Information on robots
Thank you for your interest in my research and that of my students. I have provided information on my group's past and present research projects on the web --- including videos, publications, images, and text. You can link to these websites either through my personal web page, or through the Robotic Life website. Please understand that I am swamped with requests for information about my work and simply cannot respond personally to every request.

Student Inquiries
For general information concening UROP inquiries, please see our group's How To Apply page.

For general information on graduate student admissions to the Media Arts and Sciences Program, please refer to the Media Lab's Graduate Program Applicaiton web page.

You can also visit MIT undergradutate and graduate admissions website.

Sponsor and prospective sponsor requests
I participate in both the Things That Think (TTT) , the Digital Life (DL), and the SIMPLICTY consortia. To arrange lab visits to see my work as well as that of other groups in the Media Lab that also participate in these consortia, please visit
  • http://ttt.media.mit.edu (TTT)
  • http://dl.media.mit.edu (DL)
  • http://simplicity.media.mit.edu (SIMPLICTY)

Media requests
Requests for interviews with either myself or my students must be coordinated with my administrative assistant, Polly Guggenheim, and with Alexandra Kahn at the Media Lab Press Offiice.

Photo requests

I do not own the rights to the professional photos that you see on my affiliated websites. These rights are held by the freelance photographers who took the photos, and by arrangement I have persmission to use them to promote my research. If you are interested in the photos that you see on these sites, please contact these photographers directly.

For photos of Kismet, you should contact

For photos of Leonardo, you should contact Sam Odgen.

For photos of Cyberflora, you should contact Alexandra Kahn, akahn@media.mit.edu.

Polly Guggenheim, administrative assistant
For other inquiries, please contact my assistant Polly at
Polly Guggenheim
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames St, E15-489
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-5112 (phone)
(617) 324-0001 (fax)
pobs@media.mit.edu
MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St, E15-449, Cambridge MA 02139

cynthiab@media.mit.edu