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Tag Archives: MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car
You think European cars are small now, wait till the Hiriko takes to the roads in Spain’s northern Basque country. [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged bitcar, citycar, hiriko, MIT Media Lab, smart city
1 Comment
Scientist Records 230,000 Hours of Son’s Childhood: What It Means and What’s Next
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates When Deb Roy’s son invites his girlfriend over for dinner with his [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged Bluefin Labs, Child Linguistics, Deb Roy, lifelogging, MIT, MIT Media Lab, social media, ted
2 Comments
Cynthia Breazeal at TED: We’re Making Robots Personal (video)
“People just behave like people, even when interacting with a robot.” — Cynthia Breazeal 2010 Forget the automated factories, the [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged cynthia breazeal, human machine interaction, kismet, leonardo, MIT Media Lab, Personal Robotics Group, ryan wistort, social robot, ted, trust in robots
1 Comment
New Video of MIT’s Minority Report Interface: G-Speak
John Underkoffler thrilled geeks and normals alike when he designed the revolutionary computer interface seen in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged g-speak, gesture controls, HCI, John Underkoffler, Minority Report, MIT Media Lab
4 Comments
MIT’s Pranav Mistry Makes Your Computer Mouse Invisible for $20 (Video)
Take your hand off your computer mouse, Pranav Mistry from MIT is ready to make it disappear. He’s designed ‘mouseless‘ [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged invisible mouse, MIT Media Lab, mouseless, Pranav Mistry, user interface
5 Comments
MIT’s Robot Lamp with Augmented Reality (video)
MIT has created its own version of a magic lamp. Nathan Linder of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AR, augmented reality, Fluid Interfaces Group, LuminAR, LuminAR Bulb, LuminAR Lamp, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Linder, Pattie Maes, robot
7 Comments
Incredible Video of Using Light to Control the Brain of Mice
What do you get when you combine microorganisms and fiber optics? Mind control over mice and rats. Karl Deisseroth and [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged brain control, Karl Deisseroth, mice, MIT Media Lab, mouse, optogenetics, optoXR, rat, Stanford University
10 Comments
MeBot, the Telepresence Robot With Body Language (Video)
It may not make sense to your binary minds, robots, but humans talk with their hands. Thankfully, engineers at the [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Robots
Tagged articulated limbs, MeBot, MIT Media Lab, Personal Robotics Group, Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson, telepresence, telerobot
1 Comment
QTC Robot Skin Feels How Hard You Touch – Coming soon to MIT, Samsung, Others
Britain based Peratech is endowing machines with a human-like sense of touch. Their material, a quantum tunneling composite (QTC), increases [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots
Tagged MIT Media Lab, Nissha, Peratech, pressure sensitive, QTC, quantum tunneling composite, robonaut, Robot skin, Samsung, Shadow
1 Comment