Wheel of Life Sand Mandala at MIT

A time-lapse video of the creation of a Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Life sand mandala. It was constructed at MIT by the Venerable Losang Samten and assisted by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi. The sand painting took five days to create and, as is traditional, was dissolved soon after it was ...

Video-Based Change Detection

This system compares two video streams recorded at different times and automatically detects features that changed during the interval. The systems flags these differences to allow a user to quickly see what changed, making it a good tool for security and reconnaissance applications. Developed ...

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."

The CarTel Project: Using Cars in a Mobile Sensor Network

CarTel is a distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics system. Applications built on top of this system can collect, process, deliver, analyze, and visualize data from sensors located on mobile units such as automobiles. A small embedded computer on the car ...

Team MIT finishes the DARPA Urban Challenge!

Team MIT's vehicle Talos crosses the finish line at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Talos was the fifth vehicle to finish the course, and was later determined to have placed fourth overall. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and ...

Teaching robots to adapt

Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.

StartMobile: An Intelligent Phone Assistant in 2006

During 2005-2006, a group of CSAIL researchers led by Boris Katz developed StartMobile, a system that allowed users to interact with their phones using natural language, before the iPhone even existed! This video made in May 2006 describes some of the capabilities of ...

Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside

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

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.

Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS-denied Environmnets

Robotic Wheelchair

Robotic Garden

For more info: http://www.csail.mit.edu/feature9

Robot building and barefoot running with Russ Tedrake

Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.

Revealing invisible changes in the world

A CSAIL team — graduate students Michael Rubinstein and Neal Wadhwa, alumni Eugene Shih SM '01, PhD '10 and Hao-Yu Wu MNG '12, associate professor Frédo Durand, and professors William T. Freeman and John Guttag — earned honorable mention for this video at the 10th annual ...

Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly

In this video, each cube is a robotic module that recognizes and connects to its neighbor. Using an computer interface, a user can sculpt the structure into any shape. The structure then disassembles itself into the desired shape by disconnecting and discarding the unneeded cubes. This is ...