Benefits
About company
welcome to the residency, we are on a mission to enable more ambitious young people to change the world for the better. our experience is designed for entrepreneurs, researchers, and inventors who want the freedom to turn their ambitious dreams into reality.
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note - this is an application for your top home preference. we recommend you apply to just one home. we can move your application around if you do not get your first choice.
About the role
The Augmentation Residency is a creative retreat for engineers, designers, artists, and researchers aiming to extend human capability. ~20 philosopher-builders live, learn, and build together across multiple hacker houses in pursuit of their individual visions for the future of human augmentation, deeply evaluating the opportunities and risks of the technology they develop.
From eye gaze controlled supernumerary robotic limbs to brain-computer interfaces that turns emotional states into colourful lights to natural language driven XR game engines to haptic headbands for screenless gaming, past residents explored cognitive augmentation, physical augmentation, & immersive worlds through research, engineering, and creative practices. Learn more at the 2024 and 2023 iterations of the residency.
Residents will have access to personalized mentors and showcase their work at the Augmentation Summit, a demo day and community event to map the future of human-computer symbiosis. Footage from the residency will be featured in a documentary series on human augmentation, designed to bring the behind-the-scenes conversations of tech’s inner circles into public view.
Where: Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA
When: June 1 - August 31, 2025 (Flexible if school conflicts)
Need-based support for basic living costs is possible but not guaranteed. Residents are expected to be able to pay rent for the program’s duration.
Organized by the Augmentation Lab in collaboration with The Residency, Arcadia House, and Harvard Street Commons.