Matthew D. Hancher

At the United Nations COP-16 international climate change conference in Cancun in December, 2010 — exactly....

At the United Nations COP-15 international climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, 2009 — eight....

In July of 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the Moon joined Mars as a 3D experience in Google....

In February, 2009, Google released Google Earth 5.0, which included the new 3D Mars feature that we've been working....

In the early days of the Vision Workbench I developed some software for the GigaPan panorama image stitcher. It....

The flagship application for the NASA Vision Workbench has been the Ames Stereo Pipeline, a stereo correlation....

In 2006, the Intelligent Systems Division at Ames (with a few partners at JPL and elsewhere) convened a Small Spacecraft....

When Google made their original 2D Google Moon site, it was one part serious commemoration of Apollo and one part....

Sometime around the beginning of 2006 the Evolvable Systems Group joined forces with the Adaptive Control Group....

Starting in 2006 I spent more and more of time time diving into robot vision and image processing, mostly with....

In 2006, NASA Ames and Google (our next-door neighbor in Mountain View) decided to forge a more formal relationship....

While I was developing my first modular robotic system at NASA, I was also simultaneously developing a physics-based....

Leonardo was a joint project of the Robotic Life Group at the Media Lab and Stan Winston Studio. At the time he....

In 2003 I joined the new Robotic Life Group at the Media Lab (now called the Personal Robots Group) as a founding....

The most sopphisticated of the various motor control systems that I built while at MIT was the 16-channel Medusa....

After I finished buiding the dozen or so modules of my first modular robot system at NASA, it was time to take....

When I first arrived at NASA I joined the Evolvable Systems Group, which focused on using genetic algorithms and....

I've had a long-standing fascination with distributed music and intelligent audio systems. One of my first side....

In the Fall of 2001, as my last project with the Physics and Media Group at the Media Lab, I put together the distributed....

When I first joined the MIT Media Lab as a sophomore in 1998 it was to help the Physics and Media Group finish....

Over the years at MIT I designed a number of robot control systems for robots of all sizes. At the low end....

In 2000 and 2001 I was part of MIT teams that were invited to compete in the Eurobot robotics competitions in France....

In 2001, after victories with the ORCA 1 and ORCA 2, most of the core of the MIT Autonomous Underwater Vehicles....

In the summer of 1999, basking in the success of the ORCA 1 submarine the previous year, MIT Project ORCA entered....

This is the ORCA 1, which was my first forray into serious robotics. Project ORCA was the codename for the MIT....