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See it, pick it up, do something with it. We do this
so commonly that we take it for granted. Now
machines are close to doing the same thing, which
could transform relatively mundane tasks ranging
from bricklaying to manufacturing to laundry.
So far, robots have mostly taken over activities
where work can be extremely carefully organised,
such as car production. To take the next leap in
capability, they must cope with real-world messiness.
Developments in sensors, actuators and artificial
intelligence are starting to unlock that capability.
LIDAR, a form of vision developed
in autonomous car research,
will soon be everywhere.
Robots are learning to
simultaneously map
their location and place
themselves within it.
They are using the
machine-vision
technology developed
for sorting image
catalogues, and image
processing developed
for autonomous cars
and video games.FLEXIBLE, OBJECT-
MANIPULATING ROBOTS.
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