We get together to share what we're building, explore ideas, and meet people working on human augmentation. Follow our Luma calendar for upcoming gatherings.
Follow on LumaHuman Augmentation Summit
Saturday, August 23, 2025 · MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
A day of keynotes, panels, a startup showcase, the Augmentation Residency showcase and an exhibition, hosted by Augmentation Lab, ekkolápto and Pulse. Watch 35 recordings.
Program and recordingsOur residencies give people time to build and live together. At our summits, we share their projects with a wider community through talks, demos, and exhibitions. Here are some of our past gatherings.
August 23, 2025
Summit
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
A 9 AM–9 PM summit and exhibition across ten tracks — intelligence, embodiment, biology, networks, governance, economics, worldviews, design, complexity, and consciousness — with live demos, panels, and hands-on tech.
Event page on LumaJune 15 – August 25, 2025
Residency
Cambridge, MA
Ten weeks of live-work prototyping on interconnected, adaptive, collectively intelligent systems — a hands-on answer to the question: what if AGI goes right?
August 2024
Summit
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
300+ attendees. Live demos of Strange Loops II, Preemie, and Enact alongside talks from researchers and builders across the augmentation landscape.
Cohort on stage
Summit, 2024
Wearable AI, live
Summit stage
Between sessions
Summit floor
Headset demos
Exhibition floor
Workshop wall
Live demo session
Exhibition floor
Hardware table
Exhibition floor
The exhibition crowd
Bench conversations
Summer 2024
Residency
Cambridge, MA
The lab's second cohort — twenty residents in shared hacker houses building wearables, affective interfaces, and speculative hardware.
Summer 2023
Residency
Cambridge, MA
The first ten-week immersive residency, later documented in a published CHI paper on live-work HCI R&D models.
