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About Us
MRISAR Institute, is a philanthropic family owned and operated business!
Who We Are Our Progress Our Guidelines Contact Us Creating a prototype self-sustaining, Science, Robotic, Art & Nature Institute in N.D. Media/Professional Acknowledgement Membership References Links of Interest
Who We Are
MRISAR Institute, is a philanthropic family owned and operated business. Family members and staff consist of scientists, engineers, inventors, artists, writers, poets, designers, machinists and carpenters! • To fund our philanthropic venues, we design & fabricate innovative, interactive exhibits that are featured in world class science centers, museums, universities, NASA funded exhibitions, the film industries for inclusion in media productions and educational kits & materials for K thru 12 and College and University level curriculums. We are experienced with Cybernetics, Bionics, Mechatronics, Autonomics, Animatronics, Teleoperated devices, etc. Our Graphic Arts division provides services for educational, professional, marketing & entertainment.
• We design and create low cost humanitarian & environmental devices, such as Adaptive Technology prototypes for the disabled. Our research and development in rehabilitation robotics has been presented before and/or published and awarded by: the United Nations, NASA-Emhart, Stanford, Cambridge, ICORR, ROMAN, IEEE, Discover Awards, International Federation of Robotics (IFR), etc. We were the only company in the world to be awarded an entire chapter regarding our work in the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) “World Robotics; Service Robotics Survey, 2011”. Our 1990's circa, original innovative research & development in "Facial Feature Controlled Technology" and "Artificial Sense of Touch Technology", has helped pioneer those fields!
• We are internationally renowned and awarded. Our customers include foreign and domestic governments, NASA, royalty, film industries, universities and other educational facilities. We are regularly invited to present our research & development at international technology conferences.
• We founded two nonprofit organizations, where board members do not get paid for their service, which function as humanitarian and environmental services to the community and the world.
• We are creating an “Interactive, Hands-On, Robotic, Science & Art Center” that features “Responsible Technologies”! We are expanding an on-line Emporium as a portal for providing low cost, beneficial products that promote “Responsible Technologies”, Health, Well-being and Sustainable Life-styles!
• We launched the Mysterious Universe of MRISAR Fellowship; a Free portal for teachers, students & individuals to actively participate in a "Think Tank" project aimed at developing numerous beneficial technologies to assist humanity. The home base for the organization is part of this experimental process, as an effort to solve alternative energy and sustainability issues, by adapting a 36,000 sq ft disused school into a self-sustaining humanitarian based R&D Lab, museum and nature center. Membership began on 1-1-2012.
• We incorporate Philanthropic ideals in every venue we create! From founding non-profit organizations, to using our own profits to fund humanitarian & environmental research & development!
Your purchases support philanthropic projects that help instill education, solutions & ideals. • Research & Development! • Public accessible projects! • The creation of innovative learning materials & programs!
We founded MRISAR in 1993 with the intent to target underserved robotics applications in public use science and technology centers. We only had two employees (ourselves) John Siegel and Victoria Croasdell-Siegel, while living in an old two-story building, with residence upstairs and workshop and exhibition area downstairs. From 1993 to 1998 we developed robotics, science and art exhibits for the science and technology center environments and tested them out in our own “Free Admission” exhibition area. Everything we created was designed and fabricated in our shop. The early displays included the first science and technology center quality five-finger robotic arm, with 9 degrees of freedom. Also included was a mobile robot, which responded to stimuli, and could be controlled by the public. This robot also had a simple functional robotic arm and could change its height. During these research and developmental years, we also took exhibits on location to area schools. This was done to promote higher education for the students and to determine their response to the various technologies we presented. Part of the development was to create easy to maintain and repair, robotics technologies that had an incredible longevity in terms of public use. Robotics created for such applications face unique and intense demands. Each device has to allow human interaction, restrict incorrect utilization of the controls, automatically adapt to it’s activity area, while creating the illusion that the user was in total control of the manual aspects of the functions. With this regard we designed unique logic and control circuits and support systems. Educational merit was of additional importance. From 1998 thru 1999, we made a radical shift in our work, pursuing a number of research and development projects in the areas of rehabilitation robotics. Our robotic prototypes the “Artificial Autonomics & Robotic Interface, For Paralysis Victims; built in 1998, in 2 weeks, with only a budget of $275” and “STRAC: Symbiotic Terrain Robotic Assist Chair; designed and built in 6 weeks, with a budget of $831” were published by and demonstrated before the "ICORR- International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics" at Stanford University, in California. Both were experiments in facial feature control. In 2000, we incorporated some of the technologies we developed for our rehabilitation robotics into our exhibit applications. This improvement launched us into a status of world-class and world-marketed exhibit sales. Although most of our time from that point on was spent in developing exhibit technologies, we were still able to devote some of our resources to rehabilitation robotics and other beneficial devices. Some of the safety features worked into our rehabilitation robotics were adapted to our exhibits rendering them safe for use by a wide diversity of ages and disabilities. Additionally, each design was done with power conservation in mind, so that they could easily be converted to alternative energy for museum or science and technology centers that appreciated the validity of such applications. We have found that combining workshop and living areas (for main employees) has led to positive results in efficiency, economy and in reduction of environmental impact. This allows us to reduce the time taken to develop prototypes and products, as well as reduce project budgets and transportation time losses. Economy and efficiency are further improved by creating shops that design and fabricate prototypes and products totally in-house. To further this successful combination, while calculating for future growth, we purchased a disused school in 2010. Shops are divided into a number of categories and housed in separate former classrooms in the facility. Living quarters are configured with efficient use of space. Outdoor and indoor gardens will supplement organic food, and provide a soothing past time activity. Plumbing and heating systems are being optimized for the reduction of environmental impact by converting the old systems to more efficient methods of operation. So far this has reduced our use of heating resources by 50%. Adaptations are being made to operate with alternative energy and to install microclimates. This will enhance all of the above. We design robotic parts and systems so that they are universally adaptable to numerous types of application. This has allowed us to mix and match technologies and parts that we create and to quickly produce prototypes and finished products. With these strategies we have rapidly taken our venture from a point of having a single page flyer to a 72-page catalog of predominantly robotic products. In the “Public Use Museum & Center” exhibit venue, we design, fabricate and sell more types of robotic devices then other company worldwide. We are in a specialized market with public use robotic exhibits. It appeals to our interests in serving public education and also generates funds needed for our humanitarian and environmental interests. We are currently expanding on our selection to broaden our market capabilities and are designing and building robotics for use in other applications such as: 1- Surveillance & Security Robots in Commercial Applications: robots to assist human guards, or too keep vigil in extremely hazardous areas. 2- Bomb Retrieving Robots: robots that can retrieve and isolate or disarm bombs. 3- Fire Fighting Robots: robots that can fight fires and go into high temperature and toxic environments that humans cannot enter. 4- Surveillance & Security Robots in Domestic Applications: robots that monitor security and safety in home environments. 5- Humanoid Androids for Cybernetic Research: for the purpose of developing robotic and human interactive communications and as a model for artificial limbs. 6- Cybernetic Augmentation for Humanoid Teleoperated Robots: for experiments in remote handling applications, such as emergency response situations that require a robot of human proportions (another humanoid robotic project). 7- Operation Via Telepresence: for remote applications in space, undersea and other hostile environments. 8- Specialty Suppliers for Robotic Applications: including but not limited too, ultra flexible wire, gear motors, electronic and electromechanical assemblies and specialized servo controls. To balance between our current market, upcoming applications and our humanitarian and environmental interests, we are using the school we recently purchased as a platform for further developments. From this platform we are seeking collaborative projects with other organizations, educational facilities and businesses that share our concern for humanitarian and environmental applications for technologies. Additionally the approximately 36,000 square foot school is in itself a prototype, as it will be the first of its kind in the format of being a self-sustaining, humanitarian and environmentally based center/institute, which promotes research and development for economically responsible solutions to problems faced by people of the earth in their natural, social, business, economic and family environments, through beneficial programs and technological innovations.
• To find low cost, low impact solutions to environmental and humanitarian problems • To produce educational, thought provoking and entertaining exhibits and programs, with all material being acceptable for children to view, or participate in • To strive to accommodate disabled individuals • To utilize recycled & salvaged materials whenever possible • To assist as many people as possible • To promote philanthropic Ideals
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