How do robots see?
By now you've all seen commercials for the Mercedes Benz with the twin radar emitters in the grill that detect collisions and apply the brakes faster than a person could react. Would you say that the car "sees" the collision coming? Of course not. It is just an algorithm built into a computer so that when a certain sequence of signals comes in, the computer executes a prerecorded series of actions.
Computers cannot see, either. However, if you hook up TV cameras and teach them patterns or templates and give them enough computing power to translate incoming signals in real time in three dimensions, they may be able to tell you what they "see" almost like they were one of us.
There was a TV show that just ended called Person of Interest whose main star was "The Machine" and The Machine took facial recognition and pattern recognition to the nth degree and actually saw in a fashion similar (and vastly superior) to how we see. But again, is it seeing?
When the level of sophistication becomes high enough and the degree of recognition becomes indistinguishable from a human, it ends up being like a Turing test. If you cannot tell whether it is a computer behind the curtain or a human observing, you may as well throw in the towel and say that the computer does see. Many of the Boston Dynamics robots have a stereo vision system for navigating the terrain and collision avoidance.
OK. So robots can see with nothing much more that twin TV cameras. But this whole series is called Tales of the Vuduri. Can Vuduri robots see? Trick question there. The Vuduri don't have robots. But they do have livetars, MINIMCOM being one of the stars. So how does MINIMCOM see? I'll explain tomorrow.
Computers cannot see, either. However, if you hook up TV cameras and teach them patterns or templates and give them enough computing power to translate incoming signals in real time in three dimensions, they may be able to tell you what they "see" almost like they were one of us.
There was a TV show that just ended called Person of Interest whose main star was "The Machine" and The Machine took facial recognition and pattern recognition to the nth degree and actually saw in a fashion similar (and vastly superior) to how we see. But again, is it seeing?
When the level of sophistication becomes high enough and the degree of recognition becomes indistinguishable from a human, it ends up being like a Turing test. If you cannot tell whether it is a computer behind the curtain or a human observing, you may as well throw in the towel and say that the computer does see. Many of the Boston Dynamics robots have a stereo vision system for navigating the terrain and collision avoidance.
OK. So robots can see with nothing much more that twin TV cameras. But this whole series is called Tales of the Vuduri. Can Vuduri robots see? Trick question there. The Vuduri don't have robots. But they do have livetars, MINIMCOM being one of the stars. So how does MINIMCOM see? I'll explain tomorrow.
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