---
title: "Cyrus Clarke"
category: "people"
role: "Researcher"
company: "MIT Media Lab"
linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/cyrusclarke"
twitter: "https://x.com/cyrusclarke"
website: "https://cyrus.website"
blog: "https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Cyrus Clarke

## Profile
Researcher at [[mit-media-lab|MIT Media Lab]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/cyrusclarke)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/cyrusclarke)
- [Website](https://cyrus.website)
- [Blog](https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/)

## Biography
Cyrus Clarke is an award-winning designer and technologist at MIT Media, exploring intelligence that is embodied, sensory and expressive. 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.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-cyrus-clarke-i-gave-an-ai-a-body]] — I gave an AI a body (2026-06-30, 3:45pm-4:05pm)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-cyrus-clarke-i-gave-an-ai-a-body|I gave an AI a body]]

### Media Signals
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