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Robots and Art: Seraph
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:49)
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Seraph is a robot-human dance.
This piece explores the relationship between man and machine in a pastoral fable involving a dancer and two flying robots. Set to a Schubert piano trio, the resulting work explores the expressive potential of machines, presenting in the process a commentary on the fundamental nature of dance. Seraph was performed at the Cutler Majestic theater in Boston in 2010 and at the Joyce Theater in New York City during the 2011 summer season.
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Robots and Art: Seraph
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:49)
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Seraph is a robot-human dance.
This piece explores the relationship between man and machine in a pastoral fable involving a dancer and two flying robots. Set to a Schubert piano trio, the resulting work explores the expressive potential of machines, presenting in the process a commentary on the fundamental nature of dance. Seraph was performed at the Cutler Majestic theater in Boston in 2010 and at the Joyce Theater in New York City during the 2011 summer season.
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Education Project: The Robot Garden
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:33)
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Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way.
We are developing a robot garden: a distributed multi-robot system consisting of robot flowers, robot sheep, and robot ducks. The garden is capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The movement and color appearance of the robots can be controlled.
The garden integrates rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to program and visualize the behavior of classical graph algorithms and distributed graph algorithms. The execution sequence of such algorith ...
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Education Project: The Robot Garden
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:33)
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Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way.
We are developing a robot garden: a distributed multi-robot system consisting of robot flowers, robot sheep, and robot ducks. The garden is capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The movement and color appearance of the robots can be controlled.
The garden integrates rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to program and visualize the behavior of classical graph algorithms and distributed graph algorithms. The execution sequence of such algorith ...
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Education Project: The Robot Garden
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:33)
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Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way.
We are developing a robot garden: a distributed multi-robot system consisting of robot flowers, robot sheep, and robot ducks. The garden is capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The movement and color appearance of the robots can be controlled.
The garden integrates rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to program and visualize the behavior of classical graph algorithms and distributed graph algorithms. The execution sequence of such algorith ...
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Education Project: Imara
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 0:39)
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In August 2014 I traveled to Taveuni, the Garden Island of Fiji, with a treasure trove: a box of 60 Little Suns, the gift of light for school children.
I had been visiting Taveuni for many years, at first for conducting experiments for my underwater research projects, and more recently to give back as part of CSAIL’s Imara outreach program. The generous and friendly people of Taveuni have always provided support for our work and it is rewarding to give back.
The Imara program started in 2007 as a computer literacy program. Jack Costanza and I traveled to Taveuni with a donation of laptops for computer literacy. Every school on the island received one laptop equipped with software for learning basic computer skills and software for learning maths, writing, and science. We conducted Teach the Teacher sessions to empower the teachers to use the computers in their classrooms. The schools on Taveuni do not have power, but the principal’s house does. Every night the principa ...
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Education Project: Imara
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 0:39)
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In August 2014 I traveled to Taveuni, the Garden Island of Fiji, with a treasure trove: a box of 60 Little Suns, the gift of light for school children.
I had been visiting Taveuni for many years, at first for conducting experiments for my underwater research projects, and more recently to give back as part of CSAIL’s Imara outreach program. The generous and friendly people of Taveuni have always provided support for our work and it is rewarding to give back.
The Imara program started in 2007 as a computer literacy program. Jack Costanza and I traveled to Taveuni with a donation of laptops for computer literacy. Every school on the island received one laptop equipped with software for learning basic computer skills and software for learning maths, writing, and science. We conducted Teach the Teacher sessions to empower the teachers to use the computers in their classrooms. The schools on Taveuni do not have power, but the principal’s house does. Every night the principa ...
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