How robots think: an introduction

It's More than Moore's Law

How robots think: an introduction

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Haomiao Huang | ARS Technica

Only recently have robots started to achieve the kind of sophistication and ubiquity that computing's pioneers originally envisioned.

Suddenly, the robotic future doesn't look so far off.

Today's robots are starting to be able to make these difficult determinations. The question we're here to answer is: how? What allowed robots to go from blind, dumb, immobile automatons to fully autonomous entities able to operate in unstructured environments like the streets of a city? The most obvious answer is Moore's Law, and it has certainly been a huge factor.

But raw processing power is useless without the right algorithms. A revolution has taken place in the robotics world. By embracing uncertainty and using the tools of probability, robots are able to make sense of their surroundings like never before.

In this article, we'll explore how robots use their sensors to make sense of the world

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