Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). Visit http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/ for more info.

Human Interaction with the ATHLETE Robot

Research that allows astronauts to easily and safely interacts with robots. A collaboration between MIT CSAIL's Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech.

Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS-denied Environmnets

Robot Forklift demo (June 2010)

For more info, visit http://agile.mit.edu On June 15 and 16, 2010, the MIT Agile Robotics team demonstrated a robot forklift at a busy SSA (Supply Support Activity, essentially an outdoor warehouse and supply depot) at Fort Lee in Virginia. The demonstration included: understanding and ...

Course Planning for Underwater Vehicles

These course planners allows a user to specify general goals and tasks for an autonomous underwater vehicle to complete. The course planners then use this information to plot a course around obstacles and based on current conditions, thus freeing the human user from having to create a detailed ...

Hand Tracking with a Color Glove

More info and examples: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rywang/handtracking/

Intelligent Wheelchair Project

For more info: http://rvsn.csail.mit.edu/wheelchair/

Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside

For more info: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/soylent/

AI History: Minsky Tentacle Arm

This film from 1968 shows Marvin Minsky's tentacle arm, developed at the MIT AI Lab (one of CSAIL's forerunner labs). The arm had twelve joints and could be controlled by a PDP-6 computer or via a joystick. This video demonstrates that the arm was strong enough to lift a person, yet gentle ...

Kinect Hand Detection

This is a graphical interface inspired by the movie "Minority Report". It uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT to interface with ...

MIT in the 50's and 60's

Some scenes of researchers working at MIT in the early days of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Personal Aerial Transportation System

The Boeing company is interested in autonomous air vehicle planning and control. The current scenario is to navigate an air vehicle from a starting point to the destination or alternate landing site, while avoiding certain areas such as airports and storms, minimizing the cost along the way, ...

MIT 6.141 Class Demonstration

Students built and programmed autonomous robots to navigate an obstacle course, locate and collect blocks, and then use the blocks to build a structure. For more info: http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/1529

Video Mesh: Three-Dimensional Video Editing

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL have developed the video mesh, a data structure for representing video as 2.5D "paper cutouts."

24 Hours in the Stata Center

A timelapse video of 24 hours in the lobby of the Stata Center, the home of CSAIL. MIT students never stop working!