Seeing in 3D: Assistive Robotics with Advanced Computer Vision

Robotics has made significant progress in cases of structured and constrained environments, e.g., manufacturing. However, it is still in its infancy when it comes to applications in unstructured and unconstrained situations e.g., social environments. In some respects, such as speed, strength and accuracy, robots have superior capacities compared to humans but that is not the case for person/object recognition, language, manual dexterity, and social interaction and understanding capabilities.