Photos: The weird and wonderful inventions from MIT's Media Lab

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Powered exoskeletons, foldable cars and gaming robots

The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created technologies ranging from powered exoskeletons to emotional robots.

silicon.com was given access to the lab to take a look at the prototype technologies - shown over the following pages - being devised by the designers, engineers, artists and scientists who work within the 25-year-old institution.

Pictured is the exterior of the Media Lab's new building, designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.

Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com