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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Why Robots Need to See

 Sensors are important.  

Why Robots Need to See    By Robotics Business Review,  June 10, 2022

Most autonomous-vehicle manufacturers use high-end 3D LiDARs and additional sensors to help their vehicles glean enough data to fully understand their surroundings and operate safely. Yet in April 2019, Elon Musk famously said that LiDAR is a "fool's errand," opting for vision-based perception as the underlying information-gathering technology.

While there remains significant value in traditional sensor modalities such as LiDAR, Musk was correct in saying that cameras and computer vision should serve as the foundation of any mobile robot navigation system.  ...   

From Robotics Business Review

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