tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185494880 2007-04-23 14:06:01 -0400 MIT Video Productions "Hello, Kismet," said Cynthia Breazeal in a sing-song voice. Leaning closer to the object of her attention, she asked, "Are you going to talk to me?" This exchange would be familiar to any parent, but Kismet is not a child. It's a robotic head that is able to interact with humans in a human-like way through myriad facial expressions, head positions, and tones of voice. "The goal is to build a socially intelligent machine that learns things as we learn them, through social interactions," said Dr. Breazeal, a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and leader of the Kismet team. <p>Building a sociable machine, she believes, is also key to building a smarter machine. Most current robots are programmed to be very good at a specific task, such as navigating a room, but they can't do much more. "Can we build a much more open-ended learning system?" Dr. Breazeal asks. "I'm building a robot that can use the social structure that people already use to help each other learn. If we can build a robot that can tap into that system, then we might not have to program every piece of its behavior."</p> 205 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185462420 2007-04-24 15:44:44 -0400 revrev A large-scale robotic musical instrument, designed as part of <em>Death and the Powers.</em><br /> 158 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185440860 2008-10-03 21:31:33 -0400 some videos to not Expressive animatronics usually requires a team of puppeteers to jointly move a single character from an off-stage location, making eye-contact with human scene partners virtually impossible. Aiming to solve this problem, a hybrid-control system was developed for Stan Winston Studios for their robotic film characters. It employs an infrared pupil tracker and inverse kinematics to achieve real-time, robust, and realistic gaze selection with a single puppeteer and optional director override. 117 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185409360 2008-07-03 12:36:13 -0400 School of Engineering Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/mites/www/home_page.html">MITES</a>) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. The curriculum includes Engineering Design and Robotics courses that culminate in exciting (and always hard-fought) competitions. 118 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185323560 2007-05-18 13:13:49 -0400 Edgerton Outreach A great group of kids visited the Edgerton Center and were able to build and program a nice variety of moving "machines". Using the MIT Media Lab's blue dot crickets and LogoBlocks software, these kids created a mosquito that can sense a table's edge in time to flutter back to safety, a fun-filled amusement park, a tank that spins its turret in response to a switch and a crane (that makes music, too!). 45 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185265100 2008-09-19 20:13:12 -0400 MIT News Office MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/wheelchair-0919.html">Full story</a> 39 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185243540 2009-07-17 09:08:38 -0400 MSRP 2009 "Robotic Behavior." Recorded on 7/16/2009 3606 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185217660 2009-10-12 12:58:13 -0400 garrett hemann This is the complete platform for indoor autonomous flight, developed under Nick Roy in the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL. 181 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185196380 2009-10-20 13:45:27 -0400 garrett hemann This autonomous wheelchair was developed at the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT. 389