• Question: can a robot see?

    Asked by lusherush to David, Ian on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      Any machine with a camera can “see” in the sense that it can capture visual information. However, there are no machines that see in the same way a human sees. It might happen one day, but the problem at the moment is that we don’t yet have a complete understanding of how human’s see, so we couldn’t program a robot to do the same thing even if we wanted to!

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