Bio

Cyrus Clarke is an award-winning designer and technologist at MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group, exploring intelligence that is embodied, sensory and expressive, a framework he calls AIsthetic Machines. His research spans tangible AI, olfactory interfaces and embodied intelligence, has been published at NeurIPS and CHI, and exhibited by venues like ZKM, SXSW, MIT Museum, BOZAR and Ars Electronica. His recent embodied AI work, I Gave an AI a Body, has reached over 15 million viewers globally. He also led HARD MODE, MIT's first Hardware x AI hackathon, which brought 200+ builders together in March 2026 supported by Anthropic, Qualcomm, Akamai, Bambu Labs and more. Previously he founded Grow Your Own Cloud, recognised with an EU S+T+ARTS Prize and the 2022 Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year in Art and Science. He has given keynotes at Falling Walls, COP25, Oredev and the GDI Institute, and spoken at NeurIPS, Ars Electronica and the World Economic Forum SDG Live.

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