Taking on robot vision

 An article about a startup working on robot vision may offer ways to enhance robot capabilities in industry.

Main point:  As important as the manual abilities of robots are, they need the ability to properly see their environments before they can take a bigger role in industrial workplaces."

More about it:

• Building a library of images of robots' environments "uses deep learning to produce 3D images in unstructured environments."
• Testing can be done because they "create synthetic data [data not collected by direct measurement, e.g., data gathered from simulations] and use that to test [robots] in the real world."
• Developing robot vision is important because "without good vision it's the equivalent of blindfolded humans trying to do packaging."

Takeaways:

• Giving robots greater vision capability can only improve their ability to serve humans.
• An Internet search of robot vision results in many hits, so there is a lot of work being done in this arena.