Mobile robots are expected to perform complicated tasks that require navigation in complex and dynamic indoor and outdoor environments without any human input. In order to autonomously navigate, path plan, and perform these tasks efficiently and safely, the robot needs to be able to localize itself in its environment based on the constructed maps.
Recent AI squabbles are distracting and completely unhelpful. To our benefit and to our peril, technology has become a mantra, a hurrah–word, and often is seen as the balm to all our problems. In most environments, engineers take the stance with technology of ‘the more the better’, and ‘it’s all about how you use it’. Especially in…
You might have seen a few stories about the upcoming iPhone 8. Among a few other important things, the iPhone 8 is expected to include much better AR capabilities (supported by the AR kit release) as well as a laser sensor with its dual camera. But why should you care about this new camera and…
Soon, AI will be taken more and more for granted as a foundational building block of technology. For future startups, that means that AI will almost certainly be essential to their solutions, and questions will be raised if it’s not. But I don’t share the view that VCs should assume every startup will use the best…