The idea of these so-called perception-driven systems is to interpret raw sensor data and convert it into actionable understanding. So, they capture the images as traditional machine vision would, but ...

James F. O’Brien is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include computer graphics and animation, simulations of physical systems, human ...

Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...