Video Archives

This page contains a number of digital movies that describe various projects and systems that have been developed at the AI Center. These are presented in a variety of movie formats including MPEG, AVI, RealVideo, and QuickTime. You will require appropriate viewer software to watch these. Note also that many of these files are very large! All of the files on this page are Copyright (C) SRI International, 1966-2008.

Robots and Tracking:

	Shakey Shakey was one of the first autonomous mobile robots, built at the AI Center during 1966-1972. This film, SHAKEY: Experimentation in Robot Learning and Planning, was produced by Peter Hart and Nils Nilsson around 1969.    Shakey Video:  320 x 212 (24 min)  [ RealVideo (91.7 MB) ]
	Flakey Flakey is SRI's autonomous mobile robot that was featured on PBS with Alan Alda in 1994 as part of the Scientific American Frontiers series.    Will Robots Take Over? Episode, from the PBS Archive    Fuzzy Controller:  320 x 214 (5 min)  [ RealVideo (18.5 MB)  |  AVI (85.8 MB) ]    Corridor Run:  240 x 180 (20 sec)  [ MPEG (1 MB) ]
	UCAV The UCAV project is concerned with distributed continuous planning and execution in autonomous vehicles. These videos were produced in 2002.    320 x 240 (6 min)  [ AVI (110 MB) ]    320 x 240 (8 min)  [ MOV (50.9 MB) ]
	Robot Navigation Robot vision and navigation work at SRI includes extracting 3D information from stereo and sonar sensors, and building a consistent model of the environment.    Mapping:  320 x 240 (35 sec)  [ MPG (6 MB) ]    3D Depth:  320 x 240 (30 sec)  [ AVI (19.7 MB) ]
	Meeting Chronicler SRI's real-time tracker is applied to chronicling meeting events. 3D stereo data from three video cameras are processed to detect, track, and localize people moving in a room.    Chronicler:  640 x 480 (46 sec)  [ QuickTime (10.1 MB) ]

3D Modeling and Visualization:

	TerrainCalc TerrainCalc was, we believe, the first ever computer program to generate 3D terrain fly throughs. This work was done in 1984 by Lynn Quam and included support for anaglyph stereo animations.    Phoenix:  352 x 240 (3 min)  [ RealVideo (11.3 MB)  |  MPEG (32.3 MB) ]    Yosemite:  352 x 240 (5 min)  [ RealVideo (17.7 MB)  |  MPEG (42.6 MB) ]    Yosemite (Mono Flight):  352 x 240 (7 sec)  [ MPEG (1.2 MB) ]    Yosemite (Stereo Flight):  352 x 240 (7 sec)  [ MPEG (1.2 MB) ]
	CME / RADIUS The Cartographic Modeling Environment (CME) formed part of the RADIUS Testbed for deriving, editing, and viewing 3D cartographic models. This work has continued from the late 1980's through to current day.    RADIUS:  320 x 214 (4 min)  [ RealVideo (15.4 MB)  |  AVI (93.6 MB) ]    CME:  320 x 214 (13 min)  [ RealVideo (50.4 MB) ]
	TerraVision TerraVision is a system for browsing massive terrain databases over the Web in 3D. The work began back in 1992 as part of the MAGIC project.    MAGIC I:  320 x 214 (3 min)  [ RealVideo (11.9 MB)  |  MPEG (35.8 MB) ]    Flythrough:  384 x 320 (33 sec)  [ AVI (25.9 MB)  |  MPEG (4.6 MB) ]
	APGD The Automatic Population of Geospatial Databases work dealt with rapid 3D modeling of sites from multiple image sources.    Annual Report:  320 x 214 (5 min)  [ RealVideo (17.9 MB)  |  AVI (109.1 MB) ]

Planning and Simulation:

	CommandTalk CommandTalk allows military commanders to control simulated forces using spoken English commands.    Intro:  320 x 240 (31 sec)  [ AVI (13.1 MB) ]    Full:  320 x 240 (7 min)  [ AVI (140.7 MB) ]
	SHAKEN SHAKEN enables subject matter experts to assemble the models of processes and mechanisms, without aid from AI technologists, so that questions about them can be answered using declarative inference and simulation.    320 x 240 (5 min)  [ QuickTime (34.5 MB) ]
	Open Agent Architecture The OAA is a framework for integrating and controlling a community of heterogeneous software agents. It has been used to build a series of multimodal demos.    Multimodal Map:  631 x 469 (5 min)  [ AVI (4.7 MB) ]    Automated Office:  640 x 479 (7 min)  [ AVI (7.2 MB) ]    MAESTRO:  320 x 240 (5 min)  [ RealVideo (1 MB) ]    TravelMATE:  320 x 240 (2 min)  [ RealVideo (2.8 MB) ]

Related Videos:

Douglas Engelbart Douglas C. Engelbart, along with a group of 17 researchers in the Augmentation Research Center at SRI, invented a number of technologies we now take for granted, including the computer mouse.    Engelbart's 1968 NLS Demonstration