New Robot Capable Of Identifying Objects - DZone IoT

As machines are branching out into ever more unknown and unpredictable environments, so to is their ability to understand those environments improving. I recently wrote, for instance, about a project called the Visual Genome, which aims to provide a hub for understanding how machines are able (or not) to understand the world they operate in. The platform was developed by professors at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and aims to tackle some of the toughest questions in computer vision, with the eventual goal of developing machines that can understand what it sees. Researchers at Boston University are conducting work on the same topic, and have developed a robot that is capable of recognizing specific objects, and then maneuver around them without human support. The ability for robots to guide and navigate for themselves is hugely important and feeds into a vast range of possible applications.