Mehul Nariyawala blindfolds a robot, carries it to a different room, and it relocates itself in seconds using visual place recognition. The robot's map updates in real time, showing how it instantly figures out where it is from camera input alone.
So if it's an absolute map, one of the biggest challenges, and this is a classic computer vision problem and research problem, is that if you kidnap a robot, what happens? Okay. So what I will do here is, and I will also ask you to hold this iPad in your hand. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover this robot up, all the cameras with a lid. So it's blindfolded now, right? Yeah. As I blindfold it, pick it up, and I'm going to take it to the room Where it or your other room where it marked me map. Okay. Yep. And as I as I lifted, watch what happens on the map and onto the robot. It moved. It moved. It relocated itself. It figured out where it was. Figured out where it was.
