tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/188215880 2008-05-20 16:03:43 -0400 2.007 Videos MIT 2007: A Design for Success - a 36 minute documentary about the famous mechanical engineering design contest follows the trials and tribulatoins of a group of students participants - from day one through the exciting 1998 contest Finals. 2176 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187823100 2008-02-11 13:15:13 -0500 2.007 Videos <p>Design 2.007, MIT's annual festival of machine design, manufacturing and adrenalin, culminated in a clash between two major crowd-pleasers: a grappler-trailer combo designed and driven by David Arguelles, and a truck-and-winch machine designed and driven by Kurtis McKenney. The contest, now in its 29th year, is an elimination round tournament that provides a thrilling and challenging end to Design and Manufacturing I, taught by Professor Alexander H. Slocum. The course begins in February as each student is presented with a green box stuffed with items ranging from windshield wiper motors to springs, string and Duplo blocks. This year's version of the annual contest, known as MechEverest because of the gravity-defying climb required of each machine, took place in Johnson Athletic Center on May 5 and 6, 1999. Read the full story <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/2007-0512.html">here</a>.</p><p>This video was produced by Craig Milanesi of MIT Video Productions for 2.007. </p> 1193 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187637420 2008-01-30 13:13:25 -0500 MIT Video Productions <p>During June 5th’s Tech Day symposium, a beaming President Chuck Vest had the rare opportunity to interview MIT alumnus and astronaut, Lt. Col. Mike Fincke, at his current residence aboard the International Space Station. Lt. Col. Fincke has been on board since April, and didn't want to miss the chance to briefly join his classmates during their 15 year reunion at MIT.</p><p>This remarkable connection with the space station was made possible by AMPS technology and personnel, most notably Craig Milanesi and Kevin Kirwin. As Astronaut and Alum Mike Fincke told the 1,100 in attendance at Kresge, "When we were setting this (videoconference) up with NASA, they were wondering if we would be able to get good audio and video... I said that if anyone can do great audio and video, it's MIT!"</p> 948 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187204100 2008-01-30 13:31:52 -0500 MIT Video Productions Take a video tour of the International Space Station with MIT Alum Lt. Col. Mike Fincke 621 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187062920 2007-05-09 18:29:33 -0400 2.007 Videos <p>MIT's annual 2.007 Mechanical Engineering Robot Contest has been dubbed the mother of all robot contests.</p><p>Produced by Jeff Silva &amp; MIT Video Productions </p> 566 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186829900 2007-05-03 18:30:13 -0400 MIT Video Productions In early spring 2004, a mating pair of red tailed hawks set up residence on the MIT campus in front of Building 9. These hawks were reported to have been building nests on the MIT campus for several years. They nested in a spot where Academic Media Production Services could capture and share a peek at a hawk's life, providing a 24x7 live webcast that we delivered that came to be known as the <a href="http://amps-tools.mit.edu/hawkcam/">MIT Hawkcam</a>. People all over campus and from around the US were watching as the two hawk chicks grew up. Particularly interesting is feeding time when the mother hawk brings the hungry chicks an assortment of delicious rodents. The current <a href="http://amps-tools.mit.edu/hawkcam/">Hawkcam</a> is currently streaming live footage of MIT Red Tailed Hawks, Season Three. 304 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186771300 2008-01-22 15:48:32 -0500 MIT Video Productions Spinal cord injuries, serious stroke and severe traumatic brain injuries affect more than 5 million Americans at a total cost of $65 billion a year in treatment. <p>Rodents blinded by a severed tract in their brains' visual system had their sight partially restored within weeks, thanks to a tiny biodegradable scaffold invented by MIT bioengineers and neuroscientists.</p><p> This technique, which involves giving brain cells an internal matrix on which to regrow, just as ivy grows on a trellis, may one day help patients with traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and stroke. </p><p> The study, which will appear in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of March 13-17, is the first that uses nanotechnology to repair and heal the brain and restore function of a damaged brain region. </p><p>Text by: Deborah Halber, MIT News Office</p> 252 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186564960 2008-01-03 17:04:06 -0500 MIT Video Productions Elizabeth Goldring is an artist, poet and Senior Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Her collaborative research at CAVS includes visualizing her own vision loss and developing both a visual language and "seeing machine" for people who are blind or visually challenged. This video was produced in collaboration with the MIT News Office in April 2006 as a video news release about Goldring's Seeing Machine Prototype.The video includes excerpts from an earlier documentary produced by Goldring and Ellen Sebring, as well as video art collaborations with Vin Grabill. 270 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186471320 2008-01-22 15:46:52 -0500 MIT Video Productions During the last year we completed the development of a small, high-performance robotic gripper to be <br />used in brain-controlled grasping experiments. The 1 degree-of-freedom (dof) back-driveable gripper is <br />designed to be mounted on the end of a Phantom 3.0 (Sensable Technologies)--a 3 dof backdriveable <br />robot that is normally used as a haptic interface--and the combined 4 dof robotic manipulator (gripper + <br />Phantom) is intended for reaching and grasping experiments in which the robot is controlled by neural <br />signals from electrodes implanted in a monkey's brain. These experiments require a high performance <br />manipulator and our goal in the gripper development was to create a robotic end effector with <br />performance that is comparable to and compatible with the Phantom. 247 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186400540 2008-01-22 16:18:49 -0500 MIT Video Productions Welcome to the Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics, less formally known as the Touch Lab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Touch Lab was founded by Dr. Mandayam A. Srinivasan in 1990. The goals of research conducted in the "Touch Lab" are to understand human haptics, develop machine haptics, and enhance human-machine interactions in virtual reality and teleoperator systems. The image below shows the relationship between the different areas of Touch Lab research. A human senses and controls the position of the finger tip, while a robot exerts forces to simulate contact with a virtual object. Both systems have sensors (nerves, encoders), processors (brain, computer), and actuators (muscles, motors). 233