Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
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
Personal Aerial Transportation System
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, ...
How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
PBS Newshour: How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?
Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
A paper solar cell circuit is shown powering an LCD clock when illuminated. The entire integrated paper photovoltaic is then fed through a roll-to-roll office laser-jet printer. The resulting ink spells MIT on the device side of the paper array, which then continues to power the LCD clock. The ...
Folding fiends: MIT's Origami Club
OrigaMIT: MIT's Origami Club
OrigaMIT is MIT's original origami club, which exists to promote, practice and teach origami folding, analysis and design.
Optimal paths for AUVs
Optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles (AUV)
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents.
On the hunt for rare cancer cells
On the hunt for rare cancer cells
Jellyfish-inspired device that rapidly and efficiently captures cancer cells from blood samples could enable better patient monitoring.
Obama's Web Future
Obama's Web Future
Jascha Franklin-Hodge describes how the president-elect's social-networking strategy made for a well-oiled Election Day effort.
Diamond wins Nobel Prize (Part 2)
Nobel Prize in Economics - MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond - Part 2
Nobel Prize in Economics Press Conference with winner Peter Diamond
Diamond wins Nobel Prize (Part 1)
Nobel Prize in Economics - MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond - Part 1
Nobel Prize in Economics Press Conference with winner Peter Diamond
Noah McLean - Adjusting the Rock Clock
Noah McLean - Adjusting the Rock Clock
Postdoc Noah McLean and scientists at the British Geological Survey have redefined a fundamental parameter used to calibrate Earth's history. In their recent Science paper, they report variations in minerals used to date major geological events.
New Technology Brings Offshoring to Villages
New Technology Brings Offshoring to Villages
The Xerox CTO describes research that allows manufacturing and office workers to avoid commuting to traffic-choked Indian cities.
Neuron imaging
Neuron imaging
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.
Neonatal Care Through Mobile Medical Telepresence
Neonatal Care Through Mobile Medical Telepresence
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 ...
Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of ...
Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets
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 ...
Neal Stephenson on Predictions and Surprises
Neal Stephenson on Predictions and Surprises
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 ...
Nanowires can lift liquids without power
Nanowires can lift liquids without power
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.
Nano origami
Nano origami
In this video, flaps of a polymer sheet are folded into a corner of a cube. An external magnetic field interacts with a current flowing through wires embedded in the sheet, causing the sheets to fold up.
Mysterious electron acceleration explained
Mysterious electron acceleration explained
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of the spacecraft observations.
MLK Breakfast 2012: Anouncements, Music, Benediction
MLK Breakfast 2012: Anouncements, Music, Benediction
Video includes the 2012 Announcements; Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson; and the Benediction by Rev. Robert Randolph.