Led by Prof. Angela Schoellig, the team has built a robot that can find lost items by creating and analyzing a spatial map of its surroundings. Next time you can’t find your keys or glasses, you won’t lose your sanity, as this robot will find them for you. The camera provides two dimensional images, but those pixels also contain depth information. The robot uses this to build a 3D map of its surroundings, accurate to the centimeter, and constantly updates it as things change. One...
