MOST robots are horribly short-sighted. Beyond a few metres, everything in their field of vision merges into the background, so that instead of steering a smooth path through the landscape they bumble around from one obstacle to the next.
Now a type of vision system has been developed to make robots more agile. And unlike conventional robot vision systems, it works with just one cheap camera instead of two.
Robots, like humans, usually use binocular vision to perceive depth. Two connected cameras act as the robot’s eyes. By measuring the slight difference in the direction each eye has to point…
