Plasma turbulence

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:03 GMT

This computer simulation shows a cross-section of the plasma inside a tokamak reactor. In this simulation, only the large-scale turbulence effects are modeled — which is adequate for some cases

MIT in mourning: Remembering Officer Sean Collier

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:07:44 GMT

Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.

A look inside the MIT Hobby Shop

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:23:13 GMT

Now in its 75th year, we take a look back how the Hobby Shop began, and how it evolved to what it is today.

Nanowires can lift liquids without power

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:31:19 GMT

New research has demonstrated for the first time that when inserted into a pool of liquid, nanowires naturally draw the liquid upward in a thin film that coats the surface of the wire.

The Future of Localized Manufacturing

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:45:35 GMT

Neil Gershenfeld, director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, discuss the potential role of localized 3-D printing in manufacturing.

Community Water Solutions: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs to End the World Water Crisis

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:43:39 GMT

Learn more about Community Water Solutions, an MIT-founded non-profit that empowers women in Ghana to launch profitable water businesses.

OrigaMIT: MIT's Origami Club

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:06:20 GMT

OrigaMIT is MIT's original origami club, which exists to promote, practice and teach origami folding, analysis and design.

'Cheetah' robot's first run

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:43:32 GMT

A “cheetah” robot designed at MIT may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency: In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that it wastes very little energy as it trots continuously for up to an hour and a half.

Killian Lecture: The Early History of the Moon

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:06:39 GMT

In the 41st annual Killian Lecture, Maria Zuber describes looking deep into the moon’s interior to chart its early history.

MIT visualizes how the brain loses and regains consciousness

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:31:21 GMT

This array of videos shows spectrographic data (representing brain wave frequencies) from each of 44 electrodes attached to the scalp of a healthy volunteer undergoing propofol anesthesia. The spectrograms are arranged according to their approximate position on the scalp, with the front of the head at the top of the screen, and the back of the head at the bottom of the screen. Activity moves from back to front with loss of consciousness (levels 1 to 5) and from back to front with return of consciousness (levels 6 to 8). Each video shows brain activity throughout a 140-minute period of the study. Video by Aylin Cimenser. Reproduced from PNAS with permission.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-the-brain-loses-and-regains-consciousness-0304.html

MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:31:23 GMT

A team of MIT researchers has found a coating that outperforms others not only in preventing foggy buildups, but also in maintaining good optical properties without distortion.

Teaching robots to adapt

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:31:21 GMT

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

Scanning droplets

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:07:04 GMT

Animation showing how the base of a water droplet forms small "necks" as it moves across a surface that has pillars etched on it.

From WGBH's 'Greater Boston': Kendall Square Boom!

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:01:20 GMT

MIT's Phillip Sharp on Kendall Square's growth over the last four decades.

Imaging Zebrafish at MIT

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:31:20 GMT

MIT researchers have invented a new imaging system that allowed them to create this three-dimensional rendering of the cartilage that forms the skull of a five-day-old zebrafish larva.

Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:24:19 GMT

President Obama recognized the 2011 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipients at a White House ceremony on Feb. 1, 2013.

Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:31:22 GMT

Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.

Water-repellent surfaces that last

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:31:21 GMT

Ceramic forms of hydrophobic materials could be far more durable than existing coatings or surface treatments.

Artificial muscles at MIT

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:30:16 GMT

MIT researchers at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have developed a new material that changes its shape after absorbing water vapor.

Stopping a leak the way blood does

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:30:14 GMT

Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.

Jumping water droplets improve power-plant efficiency

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:30:12 GMT

Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.

MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:05:48 GMT

Berkmen discusses her research with Professors Utkan Demirci and Ed Boyden in developing 3-D brain tissue constructs.

MIT News at Noon with Neil Gershenfeld and Ara Knaian

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:30:09 GMT

The researchers discussed their robot, the Milli-Motein, which is not only one of the world's smallest robots, but if can also reconfigure itself in a matter of seconds

Trust Center TV: December 3, 2012

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:31:24 GMT

Bill recaps a talk about immigration and entrepreneurship, and there are some competitions approaching.

Self-taught Sierra Leonean teen visits MIT

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:18:27 GMT

Meet Kelvin Doe. A 15-year-old with no formal engineering training, Doe has built batteries and generators using trashed scrap metal and wiring.

Real-life Transformers? MIT researchers unveil (tiny) reconfigurable robots

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:30:17 GMT

This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.

Spider silk makes music

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:06:05 GMT

An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.

Understanding Arctic Sea Ice

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:56:25 GMT

Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News, the MITgcm website, and the website for NASA's ECCO2.

About the animation: The simulation was conducted with the MIT coupled ocean-sea ice general circulation model, or in short, MITgcm. The configuration was constructed as part of the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean Phase II, or ECCO2 project. It was run by project partners Gunnar Spreen and Dimitris Menemenlis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on NASA's supercomputer "Pleiades" at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Tim Sandstrom at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division performed the visualization of the simulations.

Image Credits:
Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/projects/arcpac/
European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat Mission, http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cryosat/
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Earth Observatory, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), http://www.awi.de/

Spinning fibers at the nanoscale

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:05:27 GMT

A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to generate nanofibers, using hardware built through standard chip-manufacturing processes.

How nutrients spread in a turbulent sea

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:30:12 GMT

A computer simulation shows the way a patch of nutrient material is pulled apart into swirling filaments by turbulence in the water, eventually dissolving away completely.

On the hunt for rare cancer cells

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:30:12 GMT

Jellyfish-inspired device that rapidly and efficiently captures cancer cells from blood samples could enable better patient monitoring.

MIT News at Noon: Devavrat Shah on Twitter trends

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:30:13 GMT

Shah discussed how he uses his machine-learning algorithm to predict trends hours in advance of recognition by Twitter.

MIT creates oil-repelling materials

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:05:27 GMT

A steel mesh coated with a polymer containing a low concentration of a synthesized molecule called fluoroPOSS can repel water (dyed blue) but attracts the flammable fuel hexadecane (dyed red), allowing it to be used to separate the two substances. In different concentrations, fluoroPOSS can repel fuel.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/surfaces-1206.html

Trust Center TV - November 05, 2012

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:58:26 GMT

We're halfway through Fall 2012 courses and things are heating up. We have exciting news from Hubspot, MIT gets a great article written about us in the Boston Magazine, and Bill comments on new entrepreneurial studies released in the past few months.

How to communicate science visually

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:30:12 GMT

Sometimes color helps. Sometimes it just gets in the way, says MIT's Felice Frankel

Neuron imaging

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:30:13 GMT

Researchers have developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.

Trust Center TV - October 15, 2012

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:55:06 GMT

Bill records his first Trust Center TV for the school year with exciting personnel changes and $100K competition information.

In profile: Christoph Reinhart — Seeing the light

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:30:16 GMT

Architect Christoph Reinhart’s work is all about daylight and its effects: how people respond to light in buildings, and how it might be used more effectively.

Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:30:08 GMT

MIT postdoc Katherine Mirica has designed a new type of pencil lead in which graphite is replaced with a compressed powder of carbon nanotubes.

In Profile: MIT's Catherine Tucker

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:30:13 GMT

On the intersection of her personal and professional lives

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:52:12 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

Manipulating microscopic magnetic beads at MIT

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:30:22 GMT

MIT researchers found that arc-shaped magnetic nanotracks could be used most effectively to control the motion of magnetic microbeads across the surface of a silicon wafer. By combining these arcs, they produced configurations such as this, with two "reservoir" rings at top right and left, where the beads can be stored indefinitely, connected to tracks where they can be moved along as needed. In the center, a junction allows the bead's path to be altered, either continuing to the side or moving downward to another section of the wafer. By combining such structures, complex series of manipulations of the beads could be carried out.

Read more at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/magnetic-beads-lab-on-a-chip-0925.html

Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:30:12 GMT

MIT researchers describe a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.

Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:30:14 GMT

Author Neal Stephenson discusses his views on the appeal of printed media and the recent developments in sci-tech that have captured his interest. This past spring, Jason Pontin, editor in chief of MIT Technology Review, conducted a wide-ranging but informal conversation with science fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his craft, preoccupations, influences, and inspirations. Enjoy a six-part weekly series of video shorts based on their conversation.

Interview with William O'Brien Jr. about winning the Rome Prize

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:10:05 GMT

The assistant professor of architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.

Meet Baxter, a New Kind of Industrial Robot

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:09:54 GMT

A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.

Getting (drugs) under your skin

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:30:15 GMT

MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of the skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient.

TR Salon: Jack Dorsey Talks Technology

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:30:16 GMT

At an MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco, the creator of Twitter and Square explains his guidelines for creating good technology.

Chris Zegras: Tackling transportation issues around the world

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:30:16 GMT

The associate professor of transportation and urban planning builds tools that help designers make cities cleaner and greener.

Neal Stephenson on Predictions and Surprises

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:30:14 GMT

The science-fiction author reflects on how real-world technology has been working out differently than he imagined in his novels. This past spring, Jason Pontin, editor in chief of MIT Technology Review, conducted a wide-ranging but informal conversation with science fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his craft, preoccupations, influences, and inspirations. Enjoy a six-part weekly series of video shorts based on their conversation.

Cleaning up oil spills with magnets

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:10:37 GMT

MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up spills.

Jack Dorsey Talks Technology

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:09:11 GMT

At an MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco, the creator of Twitter and Square explains his guidelines for creating good technology.

Robot building and barefoot running with Russ Tedrake

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:11:12 GMT

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

Remembering Neil Armstrong

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:47:28 GMT

Jeff Hoffman and Larry Young, of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, reflect on the life and legacy of Neil Armstrong

MIT-designed microthrusters can propel small satellites

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:09:58 GMT

A penny-sized rocket thruster, designed by MIT's Paulo Lozano, may soon power the smallest satellites in space.

Growing implant tissue on 3-D scaffolds

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:32:05 GMT

MIT researchers have now shown that implanted cells' therapeutic properties depend on their shape, which is determined by the type of scaffold on which they are grown.

IT Insider with MIT Professor Sam Madden

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:14:18 GMT

EMC TV is putting the spotlight on CSAIL’s new initiative bigdata@CSAIL, in a 30-minute piece on the station’s IT Insider show. Professor and CSAIL Principal Investigator Sam Madden chronicles the challenges and opportunities presented by the field and new research underway at CSAIL.

Powering a New Way of Life

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:07:31 GMT

A non-profit in Myanmar (Burma) is using off-grid renewable energy technologies to supply electricity to remote communities.

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:32:41 GMT

New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.

Soft autonomous earthworm robot

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:26:26 GMT

Researchers have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.

Position-Correcting Router

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:10:34 GMT

Researchers at CSAIL have developed a handheld device that can adjust its position to precisely follow a digital plan when a user moves a router roughly around the shape to be cut.

Cell division and growth rate

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:06:25 GMT

MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?

Making Wrinkles

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:13 GMT

A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge July Test Run

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:35 GMT

A test run at Weymouth Naval Air Station of MIT's entry in the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. Visit http://grandchallenge.mit.edu/ for more details.

IMARA: a CSAIL outreach project

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:34 GMT

IMARA is an effort that has begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) to find viable ways of providing equal access to people in underserved populations. The overall goal of IMARA is to find and implement long-term, sustainable techniques for making educational technology and resources available to domestic and international communities. http://imara.csail.mit.edu/

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Proposal

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:34 GMT

MIT's proposal to win Track A funding for the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu/

Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:34 GMT

The bilateral grid is a new data structure that allows users to quickly and easily edit images and videos while respecting edges in the image. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/bilagrid/

Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:33 GMT

Apparent ridges are a new way to represent 3D models as non-photorealistic line drawings. They produce results that are more accurate and visually pleasing than currently existing methods. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info (PDF): http://people.csail.mit.edu/tjudd/apparentLines.pdf

Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:33 GMT

The Pinocchio systems automatically places skeletal joints inside 3D characters. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info (PDF): http://www.mit.edu/%7Eibaran/autorig/index.html

Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:33 GMT

This is a new method for mapping skeletal controls to the skin of a 3D character. Our method accurately simulates deformations such as skin sliding and muscle bulging, yielding more realistic animations. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007 More info (PDF): http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/assets/papers/wang-2007-rte.pdf

Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:32 GMT

THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCT This self-contained motion capture suit uses ultrasound to allow the recording of motions in any setting, as opposed to traditional motion capture systems that are confined to a studio. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info (PDF): http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/assets/papers/vlasic-2007-pmc.pdf

Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:32 GMT

With this new approach to image editing, the user can adjust features such as tonal balance and amount of detail. In addition to directly controlling the parameters, the user can transfer the look of a model photograph to the picture being edited. Published in SIGGRAPH 2006. For more info: http://people.csail.mit.edu/soonmin/photolook/

Wheel of Life Sand Mandala at MIT

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:32 GMT

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 finished. In this video, each frame was taken five minutes apart, chronicling the entire five day construction. For more info: http://web.mit.edu/metta/mandala/

Face Transfer with Multilinear Models

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:31 GMT

This research extracts a 3D model of a person's face from a video. The person's facial expressions and mouth movements can then be transferred to the 3D face model of another person. In this video, the two input videos are shown in the top corners. The facial movements of the person on the left are transferred to the person on the right, creating the main video shown. On each side of the output video are two perspectives of the new 3D face model. Published in SIGGRAPH 2005. For more info (PDF): http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/assets/papers/vlasic-2005-ftm.pdf

Shady: A Truss Climbing Window Shade

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:31 GMT

Shady is a robot that acts as a localized window shade by climbing the metal trusses of windows. Instead of blocking an entire window like a conventional window shade, Shady can block only the portion of the window where the sun is shining directly Shady is a project of the Distributed Robotics Lab in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). For more info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php/Shady

Video-Based Change Detection

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:31 GMT

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 by CSAIL's Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks Group. For more info: http://rvsn.csail.mit.edu/vid-match/overview/

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area B, Attempt 1

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:30 GMT

Area B is a residential area of rotaries and winding streets designed to test the vehicle's lane following, navigation, obstacle avoidance, parking, signaling, and turning. In this run Talos, MIT's vehicle, had some difficulties entering the course. It did not have these problems in its second attempt. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - El Toro Test

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:30 GMT

A pre-qualification test of MIT's DARPA Urban Challenge entry conducted at the El Toro Air Station. The vehicle is operating autonomously and no one is inside. The video is shot from a car following the vehicle. Recorded October 24, 2007. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. For more info: http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:30 GMT

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 research conducted by the Distributed Robotics Lab in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). For more info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area A, Attempt 1

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:29 GMT

Area A tested Talos' ability to merge into moving traffic. Talos ("the world's most expensive, sophisticated Land Rover in existence," as the DARPA announcer calls it) was a bit too hesitant about merging, requiring the team to make some changes to pass the event. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area A, Attempt 2

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:29 GMT

Area A tested Talos' ability to merge into moving traffic. After a too cautious first attempt, the team made some changes and the vehicle performed better in this round. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area B, Attempt 2

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:29 GMT

Area B is a residential area of rotaries and winding streets designed to test the vehicle's lane following, navigation, obstacle avoidance, parking, signaling, and turning. Talos, MIT's vehicle, completed the course in 26 minutes, one of only two vehicles that day to do so. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area C, Attempt 1

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:28 GMT

Area C involved intersection precedence and the vehicle's reactions to road blocks. Talos, MIT's vehicle, performed very well at these tasks. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

Team MIT finishes the DARPA Urban Challenge!

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:28 GMT

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 Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Race Highlights

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:27 GMT

Highlights from Team MIT's run during the DARPA Urban Challenge finals. Talos was one of six vehicles to successfully complete the course. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students and faculty from Olin College and members of the Draper Laboratory. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

MIT Humanoid Robotics Competition

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:27 GMT

MIT students spent three weeks building and programming a humanoid robot for an exciting competition. The goal of the workshop was to give students hands-on experience with tackling humanoid robot control problems, such as stably walking on a flat surface, walking up stairs, running, and even fighting! http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.095

Lecture Browser: Enabling Search within Video

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:26 GMT

The Lecture Browser is a project of CSAIL Spoken Language Systems Group. Demo the Lecture Browser at: web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/

MIT Autonomous Robot Challenge

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:26 GMT

6.141 is a class at MIT where students design and program robots that must navigate a maze, detect and gather blocks, and then use these blocks to construct a wall, all without human interaction. This video shows the final results of a semester of work.

The CarTel Project: Using Cars in a Mobile Sensor Network

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:26 GMT

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 interfaces with a variety of sensors in the car, processes the collected data, and delivers it to an Internet server. Applications running on the server analyze this data and provide interesting features for users. http://cartel.csail.mit.edu

First Autonomous Ornithopter Flight

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:25 GMT

The first (and second) flights of an autonomous ornithopter (robotic bird), built and programmed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab's Robot Locomotion Group. For more info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/flight.html

Robotic Garden

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:25 GMT

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

Neonatal Care Through Mobile Medical Telepresence

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:24 GMT

Sick newborns can decline rapidly, making every second count. In collaboration with Children's Hospital Boston, CSAIL has built a specialized device that allows doctors at a hospital to monitor a newborn's health and communicate with emergency personnel while the newborn is being transported to the hospital.

Robotic Wheelchair

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:24 GMT

Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:24 GMT

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

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:23 GMT

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

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:23 GMT

A Plane That Perches Like a Bird

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:22 GMT

For more info: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/perching-plane-0720.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/perching.html

Robot Forklift demo (June 2010)

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:22 GMT

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 execution of verbal commands; interpretation of tablet gestures and speech; seamless handoff of control from autonomous to manned and back again; interpretation of a narrated guided tour of palletized supplies; use of visual memory to find and fetch specific pallets; detection of spoken or shouted "Stop" commands; autonomous approach, lifting, transport and placement of palletized supplies; and spoken confirmation of commands.

Course Planning for Underwater Vehicles

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:21 GMT

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 plan.

Hand Tracking with a Color Glove

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:21 GMT

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

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Scanning droplets

From WGBH's 'Greater Boston': Kendall Square Boom!

Imaging Zebrafish at MIT

Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors

Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes

Water-repellent surfaces that last

Artificial muscles at MIT

Stopping a leak the way blood does

Jumping water droplets improve power-plant efficiency

MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen

MIT News at Noon with Neil Gershenfeld and Ara Knaian

Trust Center TV: December 3, 2012

Self-taught Sierra Leonean teen visits MIT

Real-life Transformers? MIT researchers unveil (tiny) reconfigurable robots

Spider silk makes music

Understanding Arctic Sea Ice

Spinning fibers at the nanoscale

How nutrients spread in a turbulent sea

On the hunt for rare cancer cells

MIT News at Noon: Devavrat Shah on Twitter trends

MIT creates oil-repelling materials

Trust Center TV - November 05, 2012

How to communicate science visually

Neuron imaging

Trust Center TV - October 15, 2012

In profile: Christoph Reinhart — Seeing the light

Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper

In Profile: MIT's Catherine Tucker

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Manipulating microscopic magnetic beads at MIT

Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders

Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets

Interview with William O'Brien Jr. about winning the Rome Prize

Meet Baxter, a New Kind of Industrial Robot

Getting (drugs) under your skin

TR Salon: Jack Dorsey Talks Technology

Chris Zegras: Tackling transportation issues around the world

Neal Stephenson on Predictions and Surprises

Cleaning up oil spills with magnets

Jack Dorsey Talks Technology

Robot building and barefoot running with Russ Tedrake

Remembering Neil Armstrong

MIT-designed microthrusters can propel small satellites

Growing implant tissue on 3-D scaffolds

IT Insider with MIT Professor Sam Madden

Powering a New Way of Life

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors

Soft autonomous earthworm robot

Position-Correcting Router

Cell division and growth rate

Making Wrinkles

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge July Test Run

IMARA: a CSAIL outreach project

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Proposal

Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid

Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing

Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters

Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression

Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings

Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look

Wheel of Life Sand Mandala at MIT

Face Transfer with Multilinear Models

Shady: A Truss Climbing Window Shade

Video-Based Change Detection

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area B, Attempt 1

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - El Toro Test

Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly