Computer Vision News - December 2022
8 Women in Computer Vision simplest to work with, they are cheap and work well. I've also worked a little bit with legged robots before as well, but I primarily work with arms. Cameras are like the eyes of a robot. Do you ever feel the urge to re-engineer human beings? Maybe we shouldn't have the eyes here on our head; shouldwe have them on our arms? Have you ever thought that we would be much more efficient if we functioned like that robot? Humans are remarkable at fine motor skills, object manipulation, and so forth. In many ways, we have evolved to be remarkable at these things because if we couldn't use our hands to do things, then we probably wouldn't survive and operate in the sameway that we do. I don't have any complaints about how human hardware works because we are already so amazing My lab primarily works on robotic manipulation problems, and that means that we're mostly working with arms. The robot arms that we work with, we work with some that are small, some that are larger. Oftentimes it's actually just one arm doing the task rather than having two arms, although we have some projects that are done by manual manipulation where there are two arms trying to complete the task. Typically, the arms have similar degrees of freedom where they can move around in a similar way as a person's arm. So that's primarily what the robots that we work on are, and in terms of sensors, we will usually stick a camera somewhere. It might be near the arm, or it might be opposite the arm. Sometimes we also put a camera on the wrist of the robot as well. And then we've also worked with other sensors as well, like audios, although cameras are kind of the
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