Personal Transportation System with Improved Plan Diagnosis

Teaching robots to adapt

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

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 ...

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.

IT Insider with MIT Professor Sam Madden

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 ...

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors

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

MIT DARPA Urban Challenge July Test Run

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, ...

Rodney Brooks and Robotics

Rod Brooks of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) gives his views on robotics and a look back at some of his previous robot creations.

IMARA: a CSAIL outreach project

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, ...

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

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

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

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

Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings

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 ...

Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look

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 ...

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 ...