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Flash LIDAR Helps Robots, Unmanned Aircraft and Vehicles See in 3-D

by Ben Chertoff on April 25, 2008 at 06:17 PM




Not content keeping your floor clean, your gutters empty and your Grandma happy on Mother's Day, Roomba creator iRobot unveiled a 3-D camera for robots at this month's RoboBusiness convention. The upshot: Robots can now gauge depth with unparalleled precision, which means they'll have that much better aim when SkyNet eventually becomes conscious.

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