This is because modern robotic vision, including visual place recognition, typically relies on power-hungry machine learning models, similar to the ones used in AI like ChatGPT. By comparison, our ...

The system contains a sensor, chip and tiny AI model inspired by biological eyes and brains and uses a tenth of the energy of a camera-based system.

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Robot eyes could be very different,” says Yuki Kinoshita, one of Transgazer’s creators. Advertisement. Human eyes only give the impression of looking at someone when we actually are.

In addition, the robot needed emotions that it could show using the eyes and various sounds along with motion. This was inspired, apparently, by Disney’s rules for animation .