tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185277900 2008-03-27 14:03:14 -0400 MIT Video Productions Toco is an 8-DOF robot that supported experiments in active vision, language acquisition, andsituated human-robot interaction. A miniature camera is mounted in one of Toco's eyes (the same kind of camera that is used in Ripley and Trisk). Toco's mouth, eyes, and features are actuated by micro servos and were used for visual feedback of Toco's internal control system. Find out more <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/toco.html">here</a>. 422 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185193100 2008-04-16 15:14:58 -0400 MIT Video Productions <p> We describe how to create with machine learning techniques a generative, videorealistic, speech animation module. A human subject is first recorded using a videocamera as he/she utters a pre-determined speech corpus. After processing the corpus automatically, a visual speech module is learned from the data that is capable of synthesizing the human subject's mouth uttering entirely novel utterances that were not recorded in the original video. The synthesized utterance is re-composited onto a background sequence which contains natural head and eye movement. The final output is videorealistic in the sense that it looks like a video camera recording of the subject. At run time, the input to the system can be either real audio sequences or synthetic audio produced by a text-to-speech system, as long as they have been phonetically aligned. </p><p>Click <a href="http://cerboli.mit.edu:8000/research/mary101/mary101.html" target="_">here</a> for more information.</p> 256 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185174320 2007-12-04 17:00:03 -0500 MIT Museum In 2007, over 1,300 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led the 10th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction. Teams from all over the country bring a link, which is then connected to the next link and becomes one giant contraption, set off at the magic moment by Ganson. Engineering principles, laws about motion and energy and all kinds of other science - including the natural world - pop up during the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/fat.html">Friday After Thanksgiving Event</a> at the MIT Museum. 1102 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185145240 2007-04-27 15:51:36 -0400 MIT Museum In 2006, over 1,000 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led one of the MIT Museum's most popular annual events. Teams from all over the country bring a link, which is then connected to another link and becomes one giant contraption, set off at the magic moment by Ganson. Engineering principles, laws about motion and energy and all kinds of other science - including the natural world - pop up during the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/fat.html">Friday After Thanksgiving Event</a> at the MIT Museum.<br /><br /><br /> 96 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185125860 2008-01-27 14:29:02 -0500 chosetec This video describes a small project by Brian Chan and Theresa Guo at the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory (Building 3, 2nd floor). It is a machine that flaps its wings and indicates the amount of lift generated. The data will be useful to determine how the force varies with a changing wing stroke angle, and thus help us design better flying machines. <p>Music by Seth Friedman </p><p>Advisor: Anette Hosoi </p><p> Animator, Director, Writer, Brian Chan <br />Engineers/Researchers: Brian Chan, Theresa Guo <br />The Hoverbot designed by Brian Chan, <br />built by Theresa Guo and Brian Chan. </p><p>To learn more about fluid dynamics research at MIT, please visit: </p><p>http://web.mit.edu/fluids/www/ <br />http://scripts.mit.edu/~pekowiki/blaise/index.php?title=Main_Page </p> 277 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185098840 2009-06-08 10:44:25 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Cardboard, lots of duct tape and four hours to get creative. Using "wind" power, high school students from across the US build devices to lift a garbage can to the ceiling of the Boston Museum of Science during the Lemelson-MIT Program's EurekaFest 2008! Video thanks to WGBH Design Squad. 220 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185009560 2009-06-16 18:11:01 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Profile on Lemelson-MIT Prize winner Chad Mirkin. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. We are funded by the Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering 343 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184924240 2009-06-17 15:52:17 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program This is an overview of the Lemelson-MIT Program, celebrating invention and innovation. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. We are funded by the Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering. 280 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184817680 2009-07-01 11:15:46 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program This is a profile about Joel Selanikio, winner of the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. We are funded by the Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering 291 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184766640 2009-07-21 11:38:04 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program The Tesla Engineering Charter School InvenTeam from Appleton, Wisconsin received a 2009 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent an alternative energy refrigerator for northern climates. They presented their invention at EurekaFest 2009 at MIT. 731