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Neato, which had a robot vacuum with LIDAR, shut down in 2023. That's not the key problem. Binocular vision ought to be good enough for a vacuum. It's short ra
by Animats 11mo ago
Neato, which had a robot vacuum with LIDAR, shut down in 2023. That's not the key problem.
Binocular vision ought to be good enough for a vacuum. It's short range compared to the inter-camera distance. Vehicle object ranging at distance is much tougher and can be fooled.
- sudosysgen 11mo ago> Binocular vision ought to be good enough for a vacuum. It could be, but it just is not. VSLAM robots were practically significant worse. There are a lot of limitations to multi-ocular vision for a robot vacuum, for example the relatively featureless walls and few features across the horizontal binocular axis. Neato was never as big as iRobot. They didn't fail from commanding heights, they never were that successful to begin with, for entirely different reasons. If they had managed to get to iRobot's level of ubiquity and distribution they would have had a much better shot of still being around nowadays.
- Animats 11mo ago> relatively featureless walls Right. The cheap solution to that is projecting a pattern of IR dots on the walls to give them some features. One version of Microsoft's Kinect did that.
- aschobel 11mo agoDidn't Matic solve this (non-Lidar robot vacuum)? People seem to rave about them.
- kobieps 11mo agoYeah matic is vision only