ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Institute of Technology students are gearing up to showcase their projects with artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video games, engineering, and more.
The 19th annual Imagine RIT returns on Saturday, with over 400 exhibits across the campus in Henrietta. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with over 3,100 students presenting their work. It’s free and open to the public.
Ahead of the festival, News10NBC got a preview of some of the students’ projects, including an AI-powered robot that aims to understand social cues. The robot, MESA, is programmed to answer questions about RIT’s Dubai campus. It’s also programmed to understand people’s tones while speaking and respond to different tones.
“MESA does have emotional analysis, and it can recognize your own voice tone and your style of talking, and it can respond to you in different voices and different tones,” one student said. “It can even have different expressions on its face, and it really captures different emotions in its own voice.”
News10NBC’s Garrett Chan got to test out MESA. The students hope that MESA will eventually be used to make students feel more welcomed across RIT campuses.
“It could maybe schedule your appointment, maybe talk to guests in that aspect. And I think it’s really exciting what the future of AI brings to RIT,” the student said.
Students also showcased a video game where a giant pair of scissors serves as the controller. The idea is that the character in the game is an evil baby running through a house. Student Sophia Pries said they wanted to make a game that’s fun, innovative, and required them, as designers, to learn new skills.
“It’s a lot about just having fun. We’re a team of designers and developers. This is a lot of our first times ever making a game,” Pries said. “I think pretty much all of us. So we’ve had to learn a ton of new skills, new software, as we’ve done engineering. We’ve done industrial design, just some stuff. That’s like super out of our comfort zone.”
Imagine RIT aims to promote creativity by connecting current students, incoming students, and alumni to brainstorm, said Lisa Stein, festival director of Imagine RIT.
“What’s unique about Imagine RIT is that we have students who graduate, and then we have incoming students. They come in with new ideas, new projects, new passions that they have, and they end up being a result right here at Imagine RIT,” Stein said.
The students taking part aren’t just from the Henrietta campus, but also from RIT’s satellite campuses, including in Dubai, Croatia, and Kosovo. Stein said it’s exciting to welcome students from all across the world to one place.
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